Delay due to a needed software update
#31
Join Date: Jun 2016
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Can hope that BOS ATC delay the approach or have to wait 15 mins for gate to become available
#33
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Could have done it on the hoof then.......
#35
Join Date: Jul 2018
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Takes me back. O Level computer science project written on a 380Z, A Level project written on a "fresh and new to the school" Nimbus. (sighs over the pleasant memories)
#36
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Longer than that. My late father used to work in the field of mainframes, whereas my mother is a total Luddite (unlike her own mother). For a series of weeks, when I was a kid, we would get panicky phone calls every Sunday afternoon due to trouble with the machines. In the end, having heard my dad's own typical response, she would answer these calls asking for my dad with "Well he's down the allotment, so I suggest you IPL and start again" and with that slammed down the phone. Generally her solution worked.
#38
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I can't remember the exact words, but she had a variant which was something like "restrap and then IPL". I know that is why we talk about rebooting, since there were cables that crossed over like a book strap. No point asking my mum, she didn't have a clue what it meant at the time!
#41
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My abiding memory of BBC Micros at school was my lab partner hacking the speech synthesiser that was the Comp Sci teacher's pride and joy, and getting it to tell said teacher to "$^%& OFF Mr XXX" repeatedly on endless loop and then locking it up somehow so it took him the best part of the lesson to get it to stop (somehow he struggled on rather than just pulling the plug on it).
Ahhhh - happy times. Don't know what ever happened to the teacher. My erstwhile lab partner has a fairly high profile and responsible job these days so go figure.....
Ahhhh - happy times. Don't know what ever happened to the teacher. My erstwhile lab partner has a fairly high profile and responsible job these days so go figure.....
#42
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: England
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I've finally found someone that remembers RM. The kids at work don't believe me when I tell them the size of the floppy disks in my trusty 380Z.
#44
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: England
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Fast forward 30 years and I joined a new (to me) company - only to find that they're still using AS/400 for a number of business critical applications!
#45
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: England
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Initial Program Load.
I can't remember the exact words, but she had a variant which was something like "restrap and then IPL". I know that is why we talk about rebooting, since there were cables that crossed over like a book strap. No point asking my mum, she didn't have a clue what it meant at the time!
I can't remember the exact words, but she had a variant which was something like "restrap and then IPL". I know that is why we talk about rebooting, since there were cables that crossed over like a book strap. No point asking my mum, she didn't have a clue what it meant at the time!