@El Loro posted:I have indeed Moonie
I knew that the work would take longer than for a normal year for that client which is why I wanted to do as much as I could before the start of the next tax year (later this week) not that I'm expecting much tax return work to come in then
You have done well El. Congratulations 
The world's first mobile phone call was made 50 years ago today:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65112048
The company Motorola has made this clip which has the man who made that call talking - it's more of a company promotional video rather than an interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYeoXX3JHs
@El Loro posted:The world's first mobile phone call was made 50 years ago today:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65112048
The company Motorola has made this clip which has the man who made that call talking - it's more of a company promotional video rather than an interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYeoXX3JHs
I remember my husband being give a Motorola *brick * by his firm âĶ.it weighed a ton âĶ.but we thought it was so cool l
@Baz posted:I remember my husband being give a Motorola *brick * by his firm âĶ.it weighed a ton âĶ.but we thought it was so cool l
Many years ago we were at a client's offices in Cheltenham. One afternoon, our senior partner was visiting us. He came into the room carrying a large suitcase.
He needed to phone another client who was also based in Cheltenham.
So he picked up that suitcase, put it on the table, opened it to reveal this massive radio phone. Once he got it set up, he proceeded to try to ring the client.
A complete failure as he was unable to get a signal strong enough for the phone to work.
He would have been better off by just walking round to the client as their building was only a couple of hundred metres away (or just using an ordinary phone).
We never saw that suitcase again
@El Loro posted:Many years ago we were at a client's offices in Cheltenham. One afternoon, our senior partner was visiting us. He came into the room carrying a large suitcase.
He needed to phone another client who was also based in Cheltenham.So he picked up that suitcase, put it on the table, opened it to reveal this massive radio phone. Once he got it set up, he proceeded to try to ring the client.
A complete failure as he was unable to get a signal strong enough for the phone to work.
He would have been better off by just walking round to the client as their building was only a couple of hundred metres away (or just using an ordinary phone).
We never saw that suitcase again
ROFL 
@El Loro posted:Many years ago we were at a client's offices in Cheltenham. One afternoon, our senior partner was visiting us. He came into the room carrying a large suitcase.
He needed to phone another client who was also based in Cheltenham.So he picked up that suitcase, put it on the table, opened it to reveal this massive radio phone. Once he got it set up, he proceeded to try to ring the client.
A complete failure as he was unable to get a signal strong enough for the phone to work.
He would have been better off by just walking round to the client as their building was only a couple of hundred metres away (or just using an ordinary phone).
We never saw that suitcase again
One of the couriers at my last workplace had one of those El
@El Loro posted:
I used to have a Pericom - mobile computer floppy disc.
Feck knows how i carried through the undergound. It was a suitcase
@velvet donkey posted:I used to have a Pericom - mobile computer floppy disc.
Feck knows how i carried through the undergound. It was a suitcase
@velvet donkey posted:I used to have a Pericom - mobile computer floppy disc.
Feck knows how i carried through the undergound. It was a suitcase
Back in the 1980s we would go out on audits with Compaq "portable" computers which were similar in size to computers.
One of the others had been working in London and was coming back home. She was at one of the underground stations and put the computer on the ground as it was heavy. A man came, picked up the computer and started walking off with it, She followed the man, stopped him and said "can I have my computer back" and he gave it back to her.She was quite slight in build, didn't think about how risky it was going after the man, and the man must have given it back not expecting to be challenged.
night EL slim moonsieee bazzy
@El Loro posted:The world's first mobile phone call was made 50 years ago today:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65112048
The company Motorola has made this clip which has the man who made that call talking - it's more of a company promotional video rather than an interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYeoXX3JHs
wow the size of those mobile phones-we have come such a long way
night EL slim moonsiee velvet bazzy
Huge outage on Virgin Media internet earlier across the country. Starting to come back. I had been unable to get here or look at emails. Very odd problems as people were able to access some websites but not others. I was able to access the BBC site including iplayer and Youtube but not broadband speed checker sites 
@El Loro posted:Huge outage on Virgin Media internet earlier across the country. Starting to come back. I had been unable to get here or look at emails. Very odd problems as people were able to access some websites but not others. I was able to access the BBC site including iplayer and Youtube but not broadband speed checker sites
I wondered what was going on El. I tried to get on here earlier but couldnât but like you I could on other sites. Very strange 
@El Loro posted:Huge outage on Virgin Media internet earlier across the country. Starting to come back. I had been unable to get here or look at emails. Very odd problems as people were able to access some websites but not others. I was able to access the BBC site including iplayer and Youtube but not broadband speed checker sites
Didn't notice anything here El ....obviously I wasn't ĖķuĖķpĖķ online early enough
@slimfern posted:Didn't notice anything here El ....obviously I wasn't ĖķuĖķpĖķ online early enough
In my area, it lasted until shortly after 8.30 this morning.
'Virgin Media haven#t said what caused the problem other than to say 45 minutes ago that "broadband services have been restored but are closely monitoring the situation as our engineers continue to investigate"
@El Loro posted:In my area, it lasted until shortly after 8.30 this morning.
'Virgin Media haven#t said what caused the problem other than to say 45 minutes ago that "broadband services have been restored but are closely monitoring the situation as our engineers continue to investigate"
A hack 
@El Loro posted:In my area, it lasted until shortly after 8.30 this morning.
'Virgin Media haven#t said what caused the problem other than to say 45 minutes ago that "broadband services have been restored but are closely monitoring the situation as our engineers continue to investigate"
It now appears to be back up and running, though in a reduced form.
so say the papers...
@Moonie posted:At least I managed to get in here okay this morning
Although you and I have been able to get to sites, according to the Down Detector site there was another outage at about 5 this morning. Virgin Media status still referring to a widespread network issue on their status checker and haven't said that the problem(s) have been dealt with.
