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I posted a picture at Christmas of my viewer.
really interested again with this, what is it?😀
Beehive bomb shelter built during The Emergency (WWII). This particular one is in the grounds of Cabinteely House. One of a few constructed there.
Rooting through a draw at home and found these.
In this thread the best posts get the least thanks.
Did anyone ever actually use it in a printer?
I printed first year assignments on this.1985.
Yes, absolutely. It was a bitch to keep aligned. Those printers were also used to print airline tickets, which were even worse to keep aligned. I can still hear the whirring sounds they used to make.
1985 again.
"Syntax Error"
Me being asked if I have any experience in coding!
My friend uses a freznel lens to play his Quake and Flight Simulation on his CRT Monitor. He thinks thats cool.
Late 70s a (much older) cousin of mine worked in a major Irish bank. I got given reams of this computer paper to draw on (the back of it was plain white). Years later, long after it had all been disposed of I realised that it had actually been COBOL source code listings.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. SECTION-EXAMPLE. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MAIN-LOGIC. PERFORM INITIALIZATION-SECTION PERFORM PROCESSING-SECTION PERFORM CLEANUP-SECTION STOP RUN.
that sort of jazz. Imagine a bank just giving away printouts of the souce code for its internal systems.
had a similar problem when coding the program that printed cheques onto the then-new Euro cheque stationery for [verylargeorganisation], the initial batch of continuous stationery was slightly out of spec so became increasingly vertically misaligned as it went on, took a while to convince everyone it wasn't my fault!
Then once the supplier had fixed it, the senior programmer who'd delegated it to me got all the credit 😐️
You can't do shît in Pascal 😛
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don%27t_Use_Pascal
Terry Gilliam's film Brazil is cool. Uses CRTs and fresnel lenses.
CRT Monitor is a retronym. Nobody called CRT monitors CRT Monitors until an alterative existed. They were just monitors.
The conversion from CRTs being normal to everything being flat panel - mostly LCD, some gas plasma - was probably the quickest tech conversion anyone alive will have seen or ever will see, cause it was so different and such a useful change.
2002, only rich twats had flat panel anything. 2007, only poor people bought CRT anything.
My company still gets reports (outstanding checks) from a bank printed out on these. Mind boggling how i can’t get it in Excel.
Just remember that back in the day the customer copies of credit card slips from these machines (see below) would show the full credit card number and were often carelessly thrown away. Some of the first electronic credit card machines were also printing the full card details - I found them way too often on the ground, even outside shops or banks.
The old knuckle buster. Fun fact we still have these in work as a failsafe incase machines go down. I once had to train all 30 staff in store on a busy Saturday as I was the only one that had used one before!
Same as everybody in the media now referring to the Irish pound as "punts", which nobody did at the time.
It was just "pound", or "Irish pound" if you needed to differentiate between it and the pound sterling.
I paid about 300 euro for a Samsung 17" (non-widescreen) LCD monitor in 2004. Was well worth it as it was a joy to use compared to the eye-straining, room-heating CRT it replaced.
1998 I was on a motorcyle camping tour around France, it was pissing rain so I ended up in a cheap motel in Reims. It was late and everywhere to eat was closed except McDonald's, I'd run out of francs and no ATM around. Laser cards only worked in Ireland. Irish credit cards didn't have a chip then, everywhere in France used the "carte bancaire" which did. The terminals only worked with chip, not the magnetic stripe. Cue much consternation when I went to pay, until the manager eventually found an old-fashioned credit card imprinter and I was able to pay!
