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Originally Posted by lighthead2toe
Sorry folks. That post was intended to go through without the pic but my computer skills failed in the attempt. This Apple imac thing they sold me isn't working the way they told me it would. Guess I'll have to return to the therapy class I belonged to for us older geeks who still are suffering withdrawals over the demise of the rotary phone. RJ.
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Quite so you silly old duffer
I myself sorely miss my abacus
and somewhrere around I am sure I still have my old moth-eaten paper type "ready reckoner"
the small version of a picture on an interesting wiki at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_livre
the caption there reads:-
"A page from a ready reckoner published in 1854 shows that conversions between Jersey currency, sterling and livres were still being carried out at that time"
That is Old Jersey (just off the Normandy coast)
both of which were of course obselete after they introduced small hand held pocket electronic calculators, originally sold in the UK for a few hundred pounds I recall
The first Sinclair calculator, was the world's first calculator to be powered by button cells, was incredibly thin for the time, summer 1972.This first caculator was called the "Executive" and was a product of the imagination of Britain's genius "Uncle" Sir Clive Sinclair
Who a few years later (1980) introduced what
was my own first computer (I still have it with its ginormous total built-in "memory" of 1 Kilobyte, yes 1000 bytes !!)
the ZX80
that is a picture on a most interesting blog page at:-
http://80sactualtec.blogspot.com/
WARNING lots of pictures so don't even think about opening it RM!!
To Ron (Meason)
Ever mindful of your dial up problems I have tried in this message to select only small images which I wanted to include for artistic reasons within the text rather than show at the bottom as thumbnails, sorry and I have also tried hard to "condsolidate my words", by which I take it you dislike my verbosity.
Don't jet me wrong Ron. It has just taken me about 7 minuters to bring up my new ebay thread to check your exact criticism.
So I fully sympathise
But seriously Ron (Jones) you can exceedingly easily edit your post to remove the repeated picture, yes even on your MAC.
Under your post you should see a little icon saying temptingly "edit" press it and you can then amend your text and delete the picture . just use your (Apple) invented mouse!