As my daughter says "back in my day" Not quite your collective vintages, but I remember Dad having to leave the football (avid Carlton supporter and member) to go to Richmond to solve a problem for Venture stores, who had a large room containing their punch card computer. That was when I was 5 ish. RMIT was still using punch cards when I went to uni in the late 80s.
Our first home computer was a Ferguson Big Board that Dad imported from the US in kit form and built the whole thing with a soldering iron. CP/M based, it had 8" 360k floppies. Wordstar was big, especially their shortcut keys. I learnt gbasic, and how to print lines on the dot matrix printer. Dad and I spend many hours solving the Collosal Cave adventure game, and were stuck for ages on where to get the final point - dropping a copy of Spelunker Today at Witt's End. On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Pro network cabling job in the 'current' picture. Is that so the wireless >> works better? :) >> > > I find if I hang the modem and switch up on the wall then I get better > bandwidth because they're closer to the satellite -- Greg >
