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Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I had a letter from my brother this morning. He mentioned that he had been getting rather dodgy broadband connections for the last week. He's with plusnet. I had a look at they had some problems at the end of January. Although they were sorted out, some people have continued to have problems. Plusnet say they should recoonect their router and provided a link for that. I've let my brother know and when he gets back home he'll do that.
Was it a handwritten letter, El?
I can't remember the last time someone sent me a handwritten letter.
Squiggle, I'm glad the sight test went well.
Awww *gets pen and paper out*
On the other hand I wouldn't know where to send it 
Just mark it 'Yogi in Scotland'.
that's brilliant Yogi 
My postie is very clever, I'm sure he'd work it out.
Yogi,
Scotland
The Queen,
England
My mother's father,
England
(he was a phliatelist = stamp collector, and was quite well known in the stamp collectors world. He would get correspondence from all over the world, and Royal Mail knew that any letter addressed with just his name and England was meant for him)
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I did get a short program I wrote published in an Atari magazine. It was back in late 1989. I still have the magazine and I could type the program out here but it would be rather pointless unless you had an Atari ST computer In those days, quite a few program listings had rows of hexadecimal digits to type in. That's the digits 0 to 9, A,(=10) B, C, D, E, and F (=15). My program converted the numeric keyboard so that you could type the A to F on that as well as the ordinary number keys. The numeric keyboard was a bit different to the pc keyboard layout so that there were two keys where the plus key is. So I had at the top A, B, C, D, then going down on the right E and F before the Enter key.
Where is the "totally baffled" smiley when I need it?!
Well done on getting your program published, El.
If I posted the listing here you would be even more totally baffled
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Yogi,
Scotland
The Queen,
England
My mother's father,
England
(he was a phliatelist = stamp collector, and was quite well known in the stamp collectors world. He would get correspondence from all over the world, and Royal Mail knew that any letter addressed with just his name and England was meant for him)
@ your grandfather.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I did get a short program I wrote published in an Atari magazine. It was back in late 1989. I still have the magazine and I could type the program out here but it would be rather pointless unless you had an Atari ST computer In those days, quite a few program listings had rows of hexadecimal digits to type in. That's the digits 0 to 9, A,(=10) B, C, D, E, and F (=15). My program converted the numeric keyboard so that you could type the A to F on that as well as the ordinary number keys. The numeric keyboard was a bit different to the pc keyboard layout so that there were two keys where the plus key is. So I had at the top A, B, C, D, then going down on the right E and F before the Enter key.
Where is the "totally baffled" smiley when I need it?!
Well done on getting your program published, El.
If I posted the listing here you would be even more totally baffled
You know me so well.
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I had a letter from my brother this morning. He mentioned that he had been getting rather dodgy broadband connections for the last week. He's with plusnet. I had a look at they had some problems at the end of January. Although they were sorted out, some people have continued to have problems. Plusnet say they should recoonect their router and provided a link for that. I've let my brother know and when he gets back home he'll do that.
Was it a handwritten letter, El?
I can't remember the last time someone sent me a handwritten letter.
Squiggle, I'm glad the sight test went well.
Awww *gets pen and paper out*
On the other hand I wouldn't know where to send it
Just mark it 'Yogi in Scotland'.
that's brilliant Yogi
My postie is very clever, I'm sure he'd work it out.
*heads off to the post box* 
Off to have tea, will be back later.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Yogi,
Scotland
The Queen,
England
My mother's father,
England
(he was a phliatelist = stamp collector, and was quite well known in the stamp collectors world. He would get correspondence from all over the world, and Royal Mail knew that any letter addressed with just his name and England was meant for him)
Very impressive I remember in the early days of owning a computer I would occasionally have to go to the DOS to amend things, it was always a bit frightening, as was amending the configsys, baffling then and now.
Signing out early tonight. I'm off to watch Rear Window, then Dial M For Murder!
Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.
Night owl hugs.
I think our first computer was an Atari- are they the ones you had to load games with cassette tapes..?
Sweet dreams yogi I hope you enjoy your shows
I hope you enjoy your showsGood morning everyone. 
Too dark to see what the weather is like atm.
No plans for today, I'll just see how things go.
Have a good day everyone.
I hope you all slept well
Yogi, you've earned a rest today
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Pancakes~:
I hope you all slept well
Yogi, you've earned a rest today
Good morning Summer.
Is your car going into the garage this morning?
Good morning everyone
Very grey cloud here. I think it's as dark as it's possible to be in daylight hours (outside solar eclipses).
Summer, the first Atari computers (400 and 800) did use cassete tapes for games etc. You could get a floppy disk drive as well. I think though that the Commodore Vic 20 and the Sinclair Spectrum computers (those were the other popular ones at that time) also used cassetts.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Good morning everyone
Very grey cloud here. I think it's as dark as it's possible to be in daylight hours (outside solar eclipses).
Summer, the first Atari computers (400 and 800) did use cassete tapes for games etc. You could get a floppy disk drive as well. I think though that the Commodore Vic 20 and the Sinclair Spectrum computers (those were the other popular ones at that time) also used cassetts.
Good morning El.
Sinclair Spectrum is ringing a bell, I think my sons might have had one of those, at one point, too.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
It must be the first of the month
Why?
Yes, I'm waiting on a call for a tow I hope it's fixed swiftly 
Spectrum sounds more familiar- I think we had one of those
I hope it's fixed swiftly Spectrum sounds more familiar- I think we had one of those
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Pancakes~:
Yes, I'm waiting on a call for a tow I hope it's fixed swiftly
Spectrum sounds more familiar- I think we had one of those
I hope it's fixed swiftly Spectrum sounds more familiar- I think we had one of those
I hope they can repair it quickly and it isn't too costly.
Thanks yogi I'm so glad I put money aside every week for the car, but these recent bills aren't helping me save to buy a newer one
I'm so glad I put money aside every week for the car, but these recent bills aren't helping me save to buy a newer one
Lol- White rabbit
Hang on...
Back in the 80s I did pre-order a Spectrum before they were sold in shops. It took a very long time and when I discovered that the Timex factory which was manufacturing them was on strike I cancelled my order. My brother had already bought an Atari 400 (one from the first batch to arrive in the UK as the serial number was in single figures). I decided to get an Atari 800 as having a better keyboard and more memory than the 400. Although more expensive than the Spectrum it was technically superior.
Good morning everyone, a lovely rabbit to greet us this morning, thank you Summer, I hope you manage to get the car sorted quickly. I would be tempted to look into one of those deals on a new car where they take care of all maintenance including insurance for 3 years.
Atari always reminds me of our daughter's first games console, the games seemed brilliant to us at the time
Enjoy your day everyone
Squiggle, I had one of those Atari games consoles before I got the Atari 800.
They were very popular amd you can still get a console with 75 of those games built in:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atari-...-Games/dp/B0094H8H6O
HOriginally Posted by El Loro:
Squiggle, I had one of those Atari games consoles before I got the Atari 800.
They were very popular amd you can still get a console with 75 of those games built in:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atari-...-Games/dp/B0094H8H6O
How amazing that you can still buy it EL, thanks for that. Hi moonie, hope you are feeling OK
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
It must be the first of the month
Why?
Summer's picture
Doh, of course! 
Morning Squiggle and Moonie.
Summer, your pic has made me want pancakes!
Off out to the bank, tip and possibly the garden centre. See you later.
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Morning Squiggle and Moonie.
Summer, your pic has made me want pancakes!
Off out to the bank, tip and possibly the garden centre. See you later.
Hi Yogi
Have a great day. The garden centre sounds good I am off to the bank later too, if I feel up to it. Everything seem to ache this morning 
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Moonie, the way I read Lori's announcement was that the maintenace was 9pm yesterday evening to 4am this morning so that wouldn't explain your cogs. I haven't had any cogs today.
Oops I really must read correctly in future. Just had cogs getting to this reply El