(Dear IPOATthe Fourth, that a happy ending is altogether unlikely?

[Hullygully]

Or not?

This thing just went round and round and wouldn't let me exit anything. It was ver ver frightening.

Hey, remember amstrads where you had to use two discs to start them..?

I do remember our first computer. It had 32k memory and only cassette tapes, not discs.

Away with you and your futuristic Amstrad with discs.

Do you type on the keyboard? I have a lap top (inexplicably) also, but I use another plug in keyboard as my sausage fingers can't manage.

Are Mac books compatible with er, ordinary ones? All mine have to talk to each other or they get lonely (or a more technical reason).

ooh yes! I remember doing my big end of year essay on Camus and the Absurd while struggling with the daisy wheel printer....

I also have an AppleMac Classic portable (about the size of a small suitcase) lurking in my closet. I should get rid, it just takes up space.

Cassette tapes??

The very first one I used was ENORMOUS and had giant discs like LPs.

Remember 8 tracks?

Yes, keyboard fine, plenty big enough (have elegant ladylike fingers though, of course, not sausages). Not sure whether you can network Mac and PCs, that is a DH level question.

I was tres fond of L'etranger. Bit of mindless beach murder right up my street.

And funny old Sartre with his odd ways.

oh oh, I must swoon ladies, my errant kitchen installer is due on site any minute.

(little cafe plods on, while cash flow crises rage)

Why are Mac books better? (Need to gather ammunition)

Bon chance Mimi. When do you hope to be ouvert?

Better swoon too before the dog has a fit.

Why are Macbooks better? DH could lecture all day, but all I know is:

1. They are pretty
2. They don't get viruses
3. You never get a blue screen of death

Was not a fan of The Outsider. In my English class of three people, my poor teacher despaired as two of us insisted it was 'pants' which made discussion somewhat tricky.

Oh, and 4) They are pretty.

Pants!

Yup. Pants. Lots of stuff was pants back then. That was the youth of some years ago now though. I may re-read some of the other books we did back then. 'Twill be interesting.

Our first family comp was a Commodore 64.

I can remember the awe of the simple programming we did

10 PRINT 'HELLO'
20 GO TO 10

RUN

My brothers and I watching the infinity og HELLO's filling the screen

Am now having fond memories of This

God bless Atari.

People think this thread is insane etc, but you go out there, into the other halls, and dear lord, how barking it all is.

There isn't enough love for all of it. No sirree.

So this is where you've all got to!

Hi Cheerful! How y'all doing?

Do we need to go and spread the love somewhere Hully? Or display Pag's flowery nethers?

Good, good, how's yer mama 'n' them?

I'm regretting the fact that I don't have time to read 36 pages right now and catch up!

I am so terribly sorry, how rude of me! Hello Cheerful, welcome back! will you join us in our Indian adventure?

The other halls are indeed full of insanity, but at least our insanity is suffused with love and joy, with the occasional rotting corpse and trail of body parts.

36 pages and two other threads!

I'm not sure you could catch up...there have been one or two tangents and plot hiccups and frankly quite a lot of things got forgotten...No matter, now we are in India and shortly to attend a ball before we begin a meditative retreat (I think).

Don't worry Widow, just having a gloomy five mins at the folly of humankind. Twill pass in a jiff.