Can someone advise me on how to get

[Snoopy]

Not since I started on this medication 

[Barman]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

[Nick]

Where is Wenchy when you need her?

[Uncle Mort]

Same place she is when you don't need her. 

[Snoopy]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

When I started they looked like this:

[tel]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

It was mainly the secretaries who did the handling though.

[tel]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

When I started they looked like this:

They look far too bloody smart to be proper operators. Look like nancy Wallington Grammer School boys.

[Barman]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

When I started they looked like this:

They look far too bloody smart to be proper operators. Look like nancy Wallington Grammer School boys.

Snoopy on the left I reckon! 

[Uncle Mort]

This is the first PC machine I had to look after at work:





Wordplex wordprocessor with two 5.25" floppy drives.

[Snoopy]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

When I started they looked like this:

They look far too bloody smart to be proper operators. Look like nancy Wallington Grammer School boys.

Snoopy on the left I reckon! 

Sorry but it is a "stock" picture. In those days I was in uniform and had a short back and sides.

[Barman]

This is the first PC machine I had to look after at work:





Wordplex wordprocessor with two 5.25" floppy drives.

Pah!

First thing I looked after was a HP85 with a 5" screen and a tape drive... If you had thousands you could buy a mass storage interface (HP-IB) for it and add a dual 8" drive.

Latyer they introduced the 89201M dual 5¼" floppy drive and shortly after the 9135A which had a 5Mbyte Wincheter and a 5¼" floppy. The Winchester had to be formatted as four 1.2Mbyte drives to emulate four 8" floppies.

How sad that I can remember all that but not what I did yesterday...  

[Nick]

I worked for IBM in 1977. The word-processor had just been introduced. It involved a golf-ball typewriter........

[Barman]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

When I started they looked like this:

They look far too bloody smart to be proper operators. Look like nancy Wallington Grammer School boys.

Snoopy on the left I reckon! 

Sorry but it is a "stock" picture. In those days I was in uniform and had a short back and sides.

 

[Grumpmeister]

Doesn't the drive have a small hole on the front to release it? If so, insert pin and push to open the drive.

I'm curious about how you've managed to break a DVD within the drive though 

Put a pin in the hole to release the drive tray and managed to get most of the bits of disk out. As for how it managed to shatter I've no idea. The disk was in perfect condition and was correctly inserted into the drive tray. Was half way through installing a piece of software when there was a bang and a grinding noise from the drive.

[Bar Wench]

Did you ever handle those 8 inch jobbies?

That was all we had when I started… 

When I started they looked like this:

They look far too bloody smart to be proper operators. Look like nancy Wallington Grammer School boys.

Snoopy on the left I reckon! 

Sorry but it is a "stock" picture. In those days I was in uniform and had a short back and sides.

My parents used to work on them. My Mum was an operator and my Dad was an engineer.