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Hand me that copy of the Phone Book

 

Can I quickly check the football results on teletext?

 

Let me just set the jumpers to get the right clock speed for this CPU

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'That @DJ-1701 seems like a sound bloke'

 

'Yes i would like a cup of tea' (7 Years Tea sober)

 

'We better move this 5 Megabyte hard drive, fetch that forklift' (I know i didn't say it but still)

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"128kbit/s! so glad I got ISDN look how quickly I can download things from Limewire".

 

"AOL Chat rooms" (are chat rooms even still a thing?) , "Add me on AIM", "A/S/L?"

 

Am I right in remembering that a lot of home dial up connections had a 1 hour connection limit, after which you got disconnected and had to reconnect? I'm sure this used to be a thing but not 100% sure.

 

"Minidisks are so awesome".

 

"Don't forget to rewind that video before you take it back to the store".

 

"If I record in LP I get 6 hours on this tape!"

 

"I love technology, it would be great to work with it all the time".

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Did you record the program on radio 4 last night

 

(I'm not talking about recording audio now that iPlayer is a thing. I mean the whistle and squeaks they used to broadcast in the middle of the night to record onto a tape to load into your BBC micro!)

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Your filename can be up to eight characters in length and cannot include any spaces.

sometimes I wish that was still a thing so no files like

 

what I did on my summer holiday this year which is 2016 in spain.docx

 

probably in a folder with almost as long a name

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