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dr.bollocko wrote: »

Projector pick

We had a maths teacher you used to use one of these. I don't know why he did because he had photosensitive epilepsy and used to go into seizures from using it too much.

Strange man.

Agueroooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjQQhH6Jbok

Legs.Eleven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDfl-YVmyA

This one is for the laydeez. Anyone else remember Ramona?

silverharp

might have been posted by now but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZEDNkZ2L4

sephir0th

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

This one is for the laydeez. Anyone else remember Ramona?

You've reminded me of this book which brings back some strong nostalgia for me:

Speedsie

dr.bollocko wrote: »

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Was asked in work if we had a projector for a presentation, I said of course we do - will the presenter be bringing their own laptop or would they like to use ours.

Turns out it was an 'Over Head Projector' as he was using acetates.

Down to the basement, dig through eons of junk, dug out one of these. Plugged it in, turned it on .... hey presto it worked!!!

Never throw stuff out - just waiting for a use for this:-


And this will shortly be decommissioned (moved to the basement)....

cml387

^^^An iomega zip drive. Capable of storing either 100 Mb or ( brace yourselves) 200Mb on a single removable disk.

cml387

cml387 wrote: »

^^^An iomega zip drive. Capable of storing either 100 Mb or ( brace yourselves) 200Mb on a single removable disk.

Where I went to college, they still had these

Cantona's Collars

Capt'n Midnight

cml387 wrote: »

^^^An iomega zip drive. Capable of storing either 100 Mb or ( brace yourselves) 200Mb on a single removable disk.

250, or even 750 on later ones

and the jazz drive of 1GB

and ye olde click of death


still a zip drive and a floppy disk was a life saver when face with a machine with no usb, no network, no cd drive if you were really lucky the parallel port was bidirectional or you'd be doing the data transfers half a byte at a time

krudler

Wise Old Elf

Brilliant, I had that version of "the witches", and I'm reading fantastic mr. Fox for my 5 year old at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KahPxbz6Pfw

rizzee

b318isp

My son has started reading the Famous Five, which brought back fond memories of doing the same myself - and the surprise to find out there was a TV version:

dickwod1

Mmmm Secret bar's

tallaghtmick

^^^^ wtf happened to those bars!!!!! unreal taste.

Mr.Saturn

tallaghtmick wrote: »

^^^^ wtf happened to those bars!!!!! unreal taste.

It's a secret.

TheBody

James74

Does it annoy anybody else that Disk 1 is on the right when it clearly should be on the left.... no.... just me then?

James74

James74 wrote: »

Does it annoy anybody else that Disk 1 is on the right when it clearly should be on the left.... no.... just me then?

"Please insert disk 1!"

Andrewf20

r3nu4l

b318isp wrote: »

Famous Five TV series

Unfortunately the girl that played George had a fairly tragic end to her life consumed by drugs. Nobody quite knows if it was an overdose or a suicide but she died in her 20s

I read about it on a an Enid Blyton forum. The poster who confirmed it was the guy who played Dick in the TV show...who incidentally is now a writer of Dr Who novels amongst other things.

I read every single one of the Famous Five books and loved the TV show

Andrewf20

Andrewf20

b318isp wrote: »

My son has started reading the Famous Five, which brought back fond memories of doing the same myself - and the surprise to find out there was a TV version:

1st book I ever read was no. 20 in the series. Was hooked after that.



Photos of the 1977 TV series cast as adults here...

http://showbizgeek.com/what-ever-happened-to-the-cast-of-the-famous-five/

CrinkElite

You'd have to wonder about old Enid Blyton sometimes

CrinkElite

CrinkElite wrote: »

You'd have to wonder about old Enid Blyton sometimes

That was the but this is now, it was perfectly OK then. only now the thought police have made it now unacceptable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3NuwDY5n8

CrinkElite

Ah yeah I know, sure casual racism was everywhere at the time.
Enid Blyton seems to have been a relatively difficult woman all the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton

Here's quote from her daughters autobiography.

"The truth is Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct. As a child, I viewed her as a rather strict authority. As an adult I pitied her."

TheIrishGrover

My sister had a golliwog when she was young. She (and I) never thought anything odd about it. Was just a black doll. Just too naive to see it I suppose.

But, y'know, to be all PC what did they do? The replaced golliwogs in those Noddy books........ with monkeys.....

CrinkElite

I remember it was only a few years ago they pulled them from the gift shop in Buckingham palace.
It must have been the last place on earth that sold them.

My friend had a Blyton book called Naughty Golly or something to that effect.
IIRC the story follows Golly as he rampages around the playroom terrorising the other toys until they gang up on him and give him a good hiding.