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| Not just that; I can remember back to a cinema style TV which projected the image onto a projector screen to overcome the limitations of the tiny tubes. Admittedly it was second hand when I saw it as TV screens were beginning to get to 17 and even 19 inch at the time. |
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we had a 15" telly for the coronation in 1953 which lasted until 1961 with a converter box on top so that we could get ITV, woohoo two channels 
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For video recording, the tape runs at 120in./sec
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That's 10 feet of tape per second 
I'd need over 35,000 feet of tape to record one episode of Lost.
How much tape do I need to archive a blu-ray on one of these?
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| towy71 wrote: | | we had a 15" telly for the coronation in 1953 which lasted until 1961 |
They knew how to throw a ceremony in those days 
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towy71
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| nelz wrote: | | towy71 wrote: | | we had a 15" telly for the coronation in 1953 which lasted until 1961 |
They knew how to throw a ceremony in those days |
well obviously I meant the telly not the coronation, but I could crown you nelz 
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| towy71 wrote: | | nelz wrote: | | towy71 wrote: | | we had a 15" telly for the coronation in 1953 which lasted until 1961 |
They knew how to throw a ceremony in those days |
I could crown you nelz |
If it took eight years to crown the queen, how long will it take to crown nelz?  |
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ollie
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Nah ... that's actually when I was born  |
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linuxgirlie
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I found this the other day:
and I thought my parents paid a lot for my first computer!
(about £2500 if anyone is interested...in 1998)
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M-Saunders
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In this thread: we post pictures of our first computers and get all teary-eyed:
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towy71
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I still have one of those Mike and a Spectrum+2, that's aside from the 8086, 286 and 486. My 486SX with 2Mb Ram and a 60Mb hard drive running Ms-Dos 5 and Win 3.1 cost £1200 quid.
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My first computer was a Sinclair ZX 81 plugged into a B&W portable telly and a Cassette recorder.
It sat on a table in the corner of my office and I struggled for weeks, on and off, in spare moments, trying to write a programme in basic to calculate standard deviations. I did it the end.
We had a Texas Statistical calculator that was on its last legs, and it was the thought of going back to manual calculations that drove me on.
Prior to that I had, and still have, one of these:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsOi6L_Pw4
.....a truly wonderful thing.
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M-Saunders
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| towy71 wrote: | | My 486SX with 2Mb Ram and a 60Mb hard drive running Ms-Dos 5 and Win 3.1 cost £1200 quid. |
And it's still useful today, thanks to MikeOS! 
I only stayed with the Acorn for a couple of years before getting a Speccy +2A. That's when it all really kicked off for me.
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My first encounter with computing Mattel Aquarius. Then I progressed to an Atari STFM/STE.
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