Oh my gawwwwwwwwwd!!!! we've finally upgraded the Mac

[Mitch]

Welcome to Mitch & Mrs R's 'new' viewing pleasure we're seeing the forum as it's never been seen before (by us anyway!!)

I've finally got us into Mac OS X and into the 21st Century :D
well, I think so... I haven't worked out how to do screenshots yet so I can't show you what I'm on about! :o

[kitkatman]

well done...........have a drink..... bars open

[Mitch]

Damn right!! :D

[Yoda]

but you drinking fluid is no longer compatable with Win XP

i am sure ewok and tuck emporium can supply converters for a modest fee


Yoda

[Mitch]

but you drinking fluid is no longer compatable with Win XP
Yoda

Windows XP! Pah! XP should stand for X-tra Poofiness!! :D
Macs rule!!

[Blue]

Welcome to Mitch & Mrs R's 'new' viewing pleasure we're seeing the forum as it's never been seen before (by us anyway!!)

I've finally got us into Mac OS X and into the 21st Century :D


Good innit? :) I hated OS 9, but X is brilliant.

[Mitch]

Good innit? :) I hated OS 9, but X is brilliant.
It's not half bad Blue!

I know what you mean about OS 9, but at least that was better than 7.5 (old Mac Fart alert – been using them since 87, even came for a job at your place once, when you were at Islington. Didn't get it sadly but there you go).
At least this gets me away from using that excuse for a web browser Internet Explorer too!

[Yoda]

Windows XP! Pah! XP should stand for X-tra Poofiness!! :D
Macs rule!!

i guess i have to agree with you there

but there aint that much non-legit software out-there for macs or linux
and i like to play with stuff

Yoda

[Mitch]

i guess i have to agree with you there

but there aint that much non-legit software out-there for macs or linux
and i like to play with stuff

Yoda

I Might have to talk to Topper, he seems to know that kinda thing

[Jonnyfp]

Are us mere xp mortals still worthy mitch.. :D


*we are not worthy...we are not worthy* :D :D

[Mitch]

Are us mere xp mortals still worthy mitch.. :D

:D :D :D

[Jonnyfp]

I dare'nt mention its only the home edition...



:eek:

[Jim]

XP ?

MAC ?

Some of us are still running windows ME



Yours sincerely

Jim President of computer dinosaurs r us MCC

[Strider]

XP ?

MAC ?

Some of us are still running windows ME



Yours sincerely

Jim President of computer dinosaurs r us MCC


ME 2 ................... gettit !!! :rolleyes:

[bill?]

Some of us are still running windows ME

you mean you actually got windows ME to run ? it normally falls at the first obsticle.

[Strider]

I've never had a problem with it, problems i have are cos I've got that much **** on here ..... should really backup and reformat, but its just too much bother ......... lazy git that I am :)

[Jim]

ME 2 ................... gettit !!! :rolleyes:


Groan ! (took me a few seconds though)

[Jim]

you mean you actually got windows ME to run ? it normally falls at the first obsticle.
Norton Windows Doctor normally keeps it ticking over quite nicely. Also customising the start up on msconfig helps.

[Qwyplain Dhark]

you should be so lucky
windows 95 speed of a bronchial ashmatic walking uphill through porridge :(

still the machine was free :)

[BikerGran]

I dunno what you're all on about!

[Mitch]

I dunno what you're all on about!

Don't worry, believe me, you don't want to know :D (back in OS 9 at work :( )

[Yoda]

i remember the good ole days when you
load win 95 via 25 floppy discs

god what a pain that was
insert disc, press ok, wait, wait some more. wait still more
insert disc 2 etc... etc....
thank the lord for bootable CD's

Yoda

[Mitch]

i remember the good ole days when you
load win 95 via 25 floppy discs

god what a pain that was
insert disc, press ok, wait, wait some more. wait still more
insert disc 2 etc... etc....
thank the lord for bootable CD's

Yoda
Me feckin' Mac laptop's still like that ( bought it off Ebay for £50 and since took it to the max! yeah, the one that Mrs R does all her work on – btw, open season again from Monday chaps, another essay :D :D :D).

It hasn't got a CD drive - though what it has got is an ethernet card so I can just put get the files off the internet and transfer them down the wire from my souped-up G3

[Strider]

Or of course you could go a back a bit further to Windows 3.0 and load the 15 or so discs then, or even further back to when I was using Dbase3 on 5 and 1/4 discs!!!!

Or back to the time when dinosaurs were around and 8" discs, we had a machine that originally cost over £5000 and ended up being used to copy the Eproms and thats all it was good for

I had an original IBM PC, built in green screen, single 5 1/4 drive, no hard drive, size of a large suitcase, used an early version of wordstar, even had the original reciept for it, around £2000 if I remember rightly. This is the one that all computers are based on regarding speed, i.e they are 500% faster etc

CD drives, whats them then????? :D

[Yoda]

Or of course you could go a back a bit further to Windows 3.0 and load the 15 or so discs then, or even further back to when I was using Dbase3 on 5 and 1/4 discs!!!!

Or back to the time when dinosaurs were around and 8" discs, we had a machine that originally cost over £5000 and ended up being used to copy the Eproms and thats all it was good for

I had an original IBM PC, built in green screen, single 5 1/4 drive, no hard drive, size of a large suitcase, used an early version of wordstar, even had the original reciept for it, around £2000 if I remember rightly. This is the one that all computers are based on regarding speed, i.e they are 500% faster etc

CD drives, whats them then????? :D
i remember using punch cards and flow charts
that was a pain in the arse
and we didnt have monitors..it was like a giant typewriter
thankfully only whilst using it at school and i thought choosing computers at school

yoda

[ForestFred]

Wax tablet an stylus anyone? :D

[Spike]

mud on a cave wall ? :p

[Bosun]

mud on a cave wall ? :p


mud you was lucky... oh how i used to dream of muud :D

[Bassman]

MUD!!!
you must have been spoiled M8... we never had any liquid at all... never mind any to make mud!!! didn't have a drink in 11 years...! :D

[smeghead]

i want my zx81 back :(

[Yoda]

i want my zx81 back :(

you will be wanting this then
http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vb81/
and as for the speed wow
3.25mhz
1k ram (expandable to a whopping 16k)

just imagine running halflife 2 on that

Yoda

[Blue]

(old Mac Fart alert – been using them since 87, even came for a job at your place once, when you were at Islington. Didn't get it sadly but there you go).

Be thankful for that. Very very thankful!

[Mitch]

Be thankful for that. Very very thankful!

So I've heard :D Nah it would have been a blast!

yes, me and Stu didn't seem to get on well at the interview for some reason. OK, it was my first Mac job after getting my Btec in Graphic Design ('99 probably – was 27), didn't have a bike on the road at the time and I may have come across as a bit of a smartarse!! (Mrs R says 'no way' at this point :p ) – Oh yeah, and I mentioned something about AWoL and an old pic of him in BSH :D (after that I already knew I didn't have a hope in hell of getting the job – obviously)

[HEATZ]

ive still got an AMEGA1200 :D only to play ELITE 2 though

and run XP pro on my pc cos im a gamer and FARCRY and RAVEN SHIELD look **** on anything else

[Sir Ewok]

First real computer was the Amstrad 464, sat up all night writing a programe in basic for the kids to use on Christmas day. Thought it was cool, green screen and all. Went on to windows 3.1, which I really liked, the more they improve windows, the worse it gets. now run XP professional on all my 'puters (have three) and this one is the sacrificial lamb, being the oldest, slowest and with two hard drives still the smallest storage.
Looked at Macs and fainted at the price and lack of intresting programmes......(my intrests that is....)