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    So my keyboard is dying. I'm typing away and suddenly it will mss a letter. At first I thik it's me but then I realse some of the keys are't working - itermttently.

    So I looked up here and there and ordered a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 (!) which I've just installed.

    It has a button and if you press it, the Microsoft calculator runs automatically!

    How cool is that? thinks Barry.

    Then a very distant bell rings. Barry remembers back in the early 80s, when he worked selling computers, that the Apricot (or perhaps the Sirius?) had a keyboard with a calculator on, which goes to show - that sometimes it takes 25 years for Microsoft to catch up with what other people were doing.

    I remember we used to recommend DEC Rainbows to customers - don't buy an IBM PC, they're rubbish. Rainbows are streets ahead in terms of computing power, have excellent software suites and are cheaper! (A teeny bit.)

    No one listened in our shop nor in any other shops either and DEC discontinued the Rainbow and the IBM became the standard. Ho hum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    So I looked up here and there and ordered a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 (!) which I've just installed.

    It has a button and if you press it, the Microsoft calculator runs automatically!

    How cool is that? thinks Barry.
    Have you been living in a cave for a while Barry?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Have you been living in a cave for a while Barry?
    We're not all pooter geeks like you my beloved.

    If I don't shovel coal into the back of my pooter, I have wind it up at the back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    We're not all pooter geeks like you my beloved.

    If I don't shovel coal into the back of my pooter, I have wind it up at the back.
    Really? Mine is magic - there's a little pixie who lives inside...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Have you been living in a cave for a while Barry?
    You missed the point. But then, isn't everyone these days?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    You missed the point. But then, isn't everyone these days?
    No, I got the point Barry. I just chose to ignore it and poke fun at you instead (hence the smileys).

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    I remember keyboards like that... What's the point in buying a computer then plugging a calculator into it?
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    The word Apricot rings a bell with me. I remember when we had a new BBC computer at primary school. If I remember right it had orange buttons and a black screen with white coloured letters... oh the days

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeanie View Post
    The word Apricot rings a bell with me. I remember when we had a new BBC computer at primary school. If I remember right it had orange buttons and a black screen with white coloured letters... oh the days
    So that makes you $#`%~ old then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I remember keyboards like that... What's the point in buying a computer then plugging a calculator into it?
    For the same reason that you don't fire up Outlook to do a sticky note to put on a bundle of documents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeanie View Post
    The word Apricot rings a bell with me. I remember when we had a new BBC computer at primary school. If I remember right it had orange buttons and a black screen with white coloured letters... oh the days
    Apricot? BBC? Surely you mean Acorn? I probably still have my Old BBC Master somewhere.. (probably in pieces in my parents attic !)

    The Apricot was a nice machine at the time though.. Our science lab had an old Apricot Portable The screen was TINY !!

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    Ahh the good old BBC pc's. Loved them for 2 reasons.

    1st Elite.
    2nd 10 print "hello"


    Those were the days. No C# or .net and ado objects.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Bartholomew View Post
    Those were the days. No C# or .net and ado objects.
    Isn't that a line from a scottish song? "no C plus plus or dot net and ado..."

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    After owning three PC's, that have crashed and died, (due to viruses ) I'm finally about to give in and buy an Apple Mac!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    After owning three PC's, that have crashed and died, (due to viruses ) I'm finally about to give in and buy an Apple Mac!


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    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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