Quote: Tim Walker @ July 10 2009, 10:55 PM BSTAnti-Nerd.
Yeah. That goes with your avatar...
Named and shamed? Page 4
Quote: zooo @ July 10 2009, 10:56 PM BSTYeah. That goes with your avatar...
Napoleon is not a nerd. He transcends the term.
Anyway, I was programming Basic into a ZX81 before most of you were born, so I think I'm better-placed to speak with some authority on the development of information technology. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 10 2009, 10:58 PM BSTI think I'm better-placed to speak with some technology on the development of information technology.
Then why didn't you...? 
Quote: Griff @ July 10 2009, 10:58 PM BSTIt's almost like you're not interested in Internet standards protocols RFC 822 and RFC 1866.
I think you'll find those were both invented by people called Tim.
I have a Spectrum ZX!
(Sorry, you were all talking 'puters and I wanted to join in 
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Quote: Griff @ July 10 2009, 10:59 PM BSTThis isn't a battle you're going to win, Tim. (It's not a battle I'm proud to be in either.)
(ZX81 is kids stuff. I had the ZX80.)
I was spending hours trying to work out how to turn on a 1970s IBM (that for some reason lurked in one of our classrooms) years before you were tapping away merrily on your Fisher-Price ZX80. I had to invent DOS on all by myself just to be able to make the thing usable.
I once rescued 2 shopping trolleys full of old ZX stuff from a strictly Christian residential home. Include a full run Zzap magazine.
Quote: Griff @ July 10 2009, 11:01 PM BSTOne Tim and one Dave. So you were half right.
Nope. Both Tim. Tim Whathisname I just mentioned and Tim Curry, whilst playing Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror....
Quote: sootyj @ July 10 2009, 11:04 PM BSTI once rescued 2 shopping trolleys full of old ZX stuff from a strictly Christian residential home. Include a full run Zzap magazine.
Yes! Great magazine!
I used to write each issue of it on an primitive word processor during school lunch-breaks. Nice to hear it mentioned again.
Quote: sootyj @ July 10 2009, 11:04 PM BSTI once rescued 2 shopping trolleys full of old ZX stuff from a strictly Christian residential home. Include a full run Zzap magazine.
I have a gun too. With a copy of 007: The living daylights! 
eh? You're worried I'm going to pop by your abode to steal some shopping trolleys full of crap? So you threaten me with gun violence?
The ZX81. I am another ZX81 veteran. I also had the additional 16K ram pack.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 10 2009, 11:13 PM BSTNope. Both Tim. Tim Whathisname I just mentioned and Tim Curry, whilst playing Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror....
Yes! Great magazine!
I used to write each issue of it on an primitive word processor during school lunch-breaks. Nice to hear it mentioned again.
Aah the "Am I unpopular because I smell or dress funny?" column was excelent.
Written from personal experience?
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ July 10 2009, 11:01 PM BSTI have a Spectrum ZX!
Same here! *high five*
I have a large penis.
Quote: Aaron @ July 10 2009, 11:27 PM BSTI have a large penis.
This is a keeper for future reference!