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OriginalGriff8-Jan-21 1:27

8-Jan-21 1:27

Only 3 miles? OMG | :OMG:

We had to walk 30, each way, uphill, in the snow - and that was summertime!

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CPallini8-Jan-21 1:31

CPallini

8-Jan-21 1:31

Only 30 miles!? OMG | :OMG:

We had to walk 300...

Laugh | :laugh:

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto

theoldfool8-Jan-21 1:34

theoldfool

8-Jan-21 1:34

First liar never has a chance.

If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

OriginalGriff8-Jan-21 1:35

8-Jan-21 1:35

The Proclaimers practiced on your school route! Wink | ;)

Nelek8-Jan-21 1:39

8-Jan-21 1:39

Italian guys walking?

No way... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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CPallini8-Jan-21 2:30

CPallini

8-Jan-21 2:30

True. I run, instead. Poke tongue | ;-P

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto

Nelek8-Jan-21 2:41

8-Jan-21 2:41

No scooter? or fiat?

you might be the exception that confirms the rule Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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den2k888-Jan-21 2:47

den2k88

8-Jan-21 2:47

Nelek wrote:
or fiat?

That equates to walking most of the times.

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Nelek8-Jan-21 3:01

8-Jan-21 3:01

den2k88 wrote:

That equates to walking most of the times.

I think in some places you are even faster walking than sitting in the car.

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CPallini8-Jan-21 4:19

CPallini

8-Jan-21 4:19

Definitely true, here in Rome.

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto

Nelek8-Jan-21 8:36

8-Jan-21 8:36

In some cities here in germany (i.e. Stuttgart) it is true depending on the time of the day, but with bike is true mostly the whole "office" day

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OriginalGriff8-Jan-21 1:33

8-Jan-21 1:33

In truth, when I was a kid, we did walk to school when it was snowy - because the school was at the top of a steep hill, and the only access road went down one steep hill then up the school one. The number of cars that could get down one hill but up neither ... Laugh | :laugh:

theoldfool8-Jan-21 1:37

theoldfool

8-Jan-21 1:37

Me too, except it wasn't up hill. There were no school buses in those days and it was during the war so nobody had gasoline to haul dumb kids around.
But, I was happy.

If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

Forogar 8-Jan-21 2:28

Forogar

8-Jan-21 2:28

You had shoes? !!!

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theoldfool8-Jan-21 2:32

theoldfool

8-Jan-21 2:32

With cardboard for inner soles. We were so poor we didn't have a mother.
Smile | :)

If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

Slacker0078-Jan-21 2:32

Slacker007

8-Jan-21 2:32

dual 27" monitors for my work setup and another 2x27 for my personal setup.

k50548-Jan-21 5:34

k5054

8-Jan-21 5:34

OriginalGriff wrote:
How the heck did I cope with a single 17" monitor? Or gawd forbid a 15" like I did back in the days?

Come now, don't you remember coding on a 9600 Baud 25x80 green screen?

Keep Calm and Carry On

OriginalGriff8-Jan-21 6:25

8-Jan-21 6:25

Remember? Heck, I used to code for 9600 baud 25x80 terminals!
Lynwood Alpha[^] - that was the top-of-the-range, with a Z8000 processor @5.5Mhz - I did some work on that, but mostly it was the Beta I coded for. That looked the same externally, but had a 4MHz Z80 and 8K of DRAM.

Both were mostly coded in assembler, with later some C code getting in there.
They were anything but "dumb terminals" - one of my projects queried database on up to 6 "proper" computers, processed the results, then told one of four other computers what to do, and showed the user a precis of the result of that. (The user input a telephone number, I decided which host held the data and what OS the host would be running, got the data (in a different format for each OS), extracted the telephone line / exchange info and passed that to one of four different hardware line test computers, and showed the line test status from that. Horribly complicated, I had to run a app to strip all the comments out so it would fit onto two floppies along with the ROM image that produced ...)

Surprisingly good days - I certainly learned a lot about how to write efficient code, if not readable ... Laugh | :laugh:

BillWoodruff9-Jan-21 2:31

BillWoodruff

9-Jan-21 2:31

open the third eye.

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

OriginalGriff9-Jan-21 3:18

9-Jan-21 3:18

That made it worse: the one in the middle normally stares at the centre monitor, and that's the one that died ... Big Grin | :-D

BillWoodruff9-Jan-21 6:09

BillWoodruff

9-Jan-21 6:09

but, dear friend, is not that sudden apparent vacuity the very gate that opens to, as Blake said: "an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?" ... do you not see, now, that limitless monitor with its infinite quantum regress of windows reflected within windows ?

do you not hear, now, the celestial choir singing: "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" ?

OMG | :OMG:

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

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OriginalGriff7-Jan-21 22:13