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ebay is your friend here I have these Interlocking EVA Soft Rubber Foam Exercise Yoga Gym Floor Mats Play Area Garage | eBay These are probably better Heavy Duty Large Rubber Gym Crossfit Mat Comercial Flooring 12mm | eBay Or these 100% RUBBER Gym Mat COMMERCIAL Flooring 10mm EXTRA THICK garage workshop mats !! | eBay If money is no object Harlequin Floors (I dance on these regularly and they are gorgeous!)

2, although I'm a baby boomer. It looks like I have the lowest school so far - no doubt my score is heavily influenced by my lack mobile phone.

I showed it a picture of Lenda Murray, 8 times Ms Olympia winner and it says I quite like this This isn't a bad guess

Here's one I did of two dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (who are all men)

IDFB - not only am I seeing lots of things, I'm volunteering too, most liking manning an information point. It's great that it's in Birmingham - minimal travel for me!

I remember when we used acoustic couplers at 300 baud for remote access. These Sendata Series 700s where the exact ones. We had a new phone system installed with flashy square ends on the handsets. We had to keep an old phone just for the couplers. 300 baud works out at about 2.25 KB/min. I remember when we went to 9600 baud, we thought all our Christmases had come at once.

A sign like this is for sale in the High St

Here is an interview with the Vivaldi devs https://opensource.com/life/16/4/young-vivaldi-browser-taking-its-cues-community

There was actually a TV program called "Cut It In Half", where they sliced an aeroplane and fire engine lengthways.

A week now at the new gym. It's OK but I do miss training with the body builders in the cramped industrial unit. Sadly, I had to change. Every so often, they decide to forgo with the cleaning. Usually a quick word and it's all good, but this time to no avail, even after a month. The change rooms smell like something had died in there, so after 10 years or so I've moved to a posh gym in a hotel. Good points - it's clean and they've got a functional rig, which is great for chinups/pullups. It's better than the bar on the squat rack at the old place in that I don't have to fit my pullups between someone doing squats. Bad points - it's full of hipsters, they could do with at least one more Smith Machine and far too much sit around playing with mobile phones. Yesterday, there was a bloke on the Smith Machine for ages, fiddling with his phone between sets. "I'll only be another 10 minutes", he said, to which I replied, "I'll be five minutes to do my four full sets" and off I went. The look on his face was priceless.

I still have my PDP-8 handbook - a DEC machine for those who don't know. This was the era when computers had proper front panels.

Here's a rare beast from my big iron days The company that owned it paid $20,000 for an upgrade, a huge amount of money then. Higher clock rate and more memory probably. An engineer came out, opened the machine, wire wrapped a couple of posts and job done. Took him five minutes.

I used to work on Pr1me computers. The ones I used ran Information, a clone of the Pick Operating System. Other machines that I worked ion with the Pick Operating System : WICAT - World Institute for Computer Aided Training. The Wicat is one of the first computers to use a Motorola MC68000 processor. Ultimate Computer - Rebadged Honeywell Level-6s which ran Pick in two different wats, depending on the model. One used the Writable Control Store to translate Reality virtual machine instructions into Level-6 instructions. The second used a dedicated processor board to run the Pick instructions and used the Level-6 processor for I/O. Yep a VM in the 1980s and it probably wasn't the first. McDonnell Douglas Reality - The aircraft manufacturer took over Microdata Corporation, who where (AFAIK) the first company to sell Pick machines. The installation where I worked had another aircraft link - we ran Lear Siegler vdus. Our computer was supplied by AWA - Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia). Pertec Computer - these were Motorolla based machines too. Based in Irvine, CA - the spiritual home of Pick. Olivetti M24 - these were very good clones of the IBM PC. They could be supplied with MS-DOS or DR-DOS, but we bought ours without an o/s direct from Olivetti. We had to specify a particular release of the BIOS to get the three port boards we used to work. Four concurrent users on one PC back in the mid 1980s, and Microsoft still can't manage more that one concurrent user. I wish that I could remember the manufacturer of the board. When I moved into Unix, the most interesting machines were the Motorola Powerstack, which looked like a stereo. http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/PowerStack/stack.jpg They were Power PC boxes.

When I was at high school in the 1970s, the nearby teachers college had computer, which was probably an IBM System/3 which select group of us were able to use. My memory is vague but I remember we typed in some BASIC and I think we got it to play Noughts and Crosses. In my final year of high school, I built a modified version of J.A.C.K.I.E (Joint Arithmetic Calculator and Kinetic Input Evaluator) from the book We Built Our Own Computers It was electomechanical (relays) and had 8 bits of memory. It would add, subtract or multiply. I have a copy of the book (in immaculate condition) and I'd love to remake it. Trouble is, I was much cleverer then - I don't understand the CPU diagrams in it. Come 1976, I was at uni were we had a CDC Cyber 173 (picture below) and DEC PDP-8s and PDP-11s. The Cyber was programed via punched cards and/or timesharing VDU and you could use BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal or machine code. The latter was highly discouraged. On the PDPs it was all machine code, fed in via paper tape or a DEC LA36 Decwriter. We also learned RPG II, which we programmed on OMR cards and they were sent off somewhere, and came back three or four days later. In my final year at uni, we had an Apple but I never bothered with it - seems to be too much of a toy. My first job, in 1979 was working on IBM 360s and all programming was via punch cards. There was a team of six programmers and three punch girls and part of the punch girls remit, was to make coffee for the programmers. I couldn't be bothered with that nonsense and I was once told off by the boss for making my own. Like DavePa and Bossman, I learned to use a slide rule and log book at school. I still have both and I can just about still use them. I briefly had a Commodore 64 when they came out. I sold it after about 6 months, for more than I paid for it. There was a shortage at the time. I didn't get a home PC until 2002 - I used the Unix boxes at work. I was beaten soundly by my father, who got one in 1999.

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I've been using Vivaldi off and on for about a year now. It's OK but it doesn't seem to do much different from Opera. I've been using Opera since it was released, when it used to display ads which you could turn off by paying - which I did. Vivaldi seems to have all the featuring of Opera that I don't like (speed dial and annoying wallpapers amongst others) and doesn't seem to have any advantages. Since I've been using Opera for so long, and I have carefully carried my profile with me (it was created in version 8.1 and I have version 32 installed), most of the annoying features aren't there on my Opera. I did try my Opera profile with Vivaldi, but I couldn't get it to work. Do try it for yourself, but it to me it doesn't seem to have any advantage over Chrome or Opera.

I'd recommend a track ball and learn how to use it in the left hand. That's what I did when I was experiencing RSI, and I've never looked back. A physiotherapist told me that most people don't use their non dominant hand anywhere near enough.

Yet ours have been fine - maybe it's because we're a college and the students are older. I don't know who made ours as they were included in the new building.

You can read about one of mine here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/168291-today-world-backup-day-dont-forget-your-backups.html

My disk whirrs like a mad thing when I access the site.

It works OK in my FF - I'm running version 15.0.1 - BTW the site makes the disk in the PC work hard.

I think it depends on the whim of the tax man. I've imported Dura-stilts from the US and they arrived tax free but a set of three books about Russ Meyer weren't.

What you could do, is go to the US with a friend and each buy a Tesla 3 in LA. Drive to New York via Florida and then each sell the car to the other party. The car is now second hand and has done more than 6,000km and is VAT exempt.

Black Country fizzy drink sculpture is just super, man - Express & Star It has been there for a couple of weeks and I had no idea as to what it was supposed to be. I thought that it might be a heart - I must be a thicko!

I'd go with "guinea pigs".