Now, this IS something that irks me.

bertie · August 2013

calling this place FB................... the other place is FB, most of the world calls it FB - and for those of use (which I guess its most) that use both places is BLOODY CONFUSING

cant this place be FBd ? or something

and relax

monquixote · August 2013

This place is TheFB not FB.

You will notice mods call it that to reduce the potential for confusion.

VimFuego · August 2013

I still call it the guitarist forum, not that that helps at all.

Emp_Fab · August 2013

I don't.

I call it 'The Faceboard'.

stickyfiddle · August 2013

TFB?

not_the_dj · August 2013

I watched the FB film last week, and according to that the The got killed off quite early on...so I reckon it's ours to use.

Fretwired · August 2013

Emp_Fab said:

I don't.

I call it 'The Faceboard'.

You ought to see what the Fretboard calls you ... :-)

Drew_TNBD · August 2013

I call it Musicradar 2.

8-X

TTony · August 2013

Drew_fx said:

I call it Musicradar 2.

I remember Musicradar. Vaguely.

But then I remember stuff like Netscape Navigator and CompuServe email addresses.

I remember my Mk1 Escort with perhaps 50bhp and its cool (1970s) vinyl roof.

In fact, I remember the 1970s, and Gary Glitter.

I remember my very first Sony Walkman, that played "cassette tapes" and meant my music was suddenly mobile.

I remember the Sweeney and the Professionals, and Status Quo before they had to reform to become good again.

Lots of stuff that I remember used to be good once. When it was all we knew and had nothing better. But which I soon forgot when something better came along.

bertie · August 2013

do you remember MPM ? CPM ? DRDos?..........CCPM?............ 8" floppy disks..................thin leather ties.................

Fretwired · August 2013

bertie said:

do you remember MPM ? CPM ? DRDos?..........CCPM?............ 8" floppy disks..................thin leather ties.................

Oh yes. And how you could have a machine partitioned to run CCPM and MS-Dos as the latter hardly had any business software.

bertie · August 2013

Fretwired said:
Oh yes. And how you could have a machine partitioned to run CCPM and MS-Dos as the latter hardly had any business software.

oh indeed, one partition for comms, one for local apps - the ICL DRS300................ "sighs"

TTony · August 2013

DRDos - oh yes

But my point was that the old stuff was no good ...

bertie · August 2013

TTony said:

But my point was that the old stuff was no good ...

thats no way to talk about Fret....................................

Phil_aka_Pip · August 2013

TTony said:

DRDos - oh yes
But my point was that the old stuff was no good ...

Except that in guitars & amplifiers, the "old" stuff seems (to some) to be so much better than the new stuff.

And:

Although the UNIX shell (Bourne, or C) is so much older than Windoze, you can still do a lot more with it. And the old TECO editor on the DEC-System-10 was so powerful you could almost write programs in its command language. And before microprocessors you didn't need an expensive In Circuit Emulator to stop the machine, examine registers, patch memory, see what's on the data or address bus. And with discrete component technology, if one failed you didn't junk the whole board you just replace a component. And if your car wouldn't start you could find out within 10 minutes why not and probably fix it with tools from the shed without requiring computer diagnostics and an expensive trip to the garage.

There was a lot of crap about though. ICL's TME executive was based on EMOE, purely for political reasons. I'm sure similar things happen today.

Jalapeno · August 2013

George3 for me !

Phil_aka_Pip · August 2013

@Jalapeno Oh yes, there was a lot you could do with the line editor and JCL between them

EDIT Did you know George3 was an atheist?

LF GOD

ERROR IN PARAMETER 1 IN LISTFILE: FILESTORE ENTRANT GOD DOES NOT EXIST

Drew_TNBD · August 2013

TTony said:

Drew_fx said:

I call it Musicradar 2.

I remember Musicradar. Vaguely.

But then I remember stuff like Netscape Navigator and CompuServe email addresses.
I remember my Mk1 Escort with perhaps 50bhp and its cool (1970s) vinyl roof.
In fact, I remember the 1970s, and Gary Glitter.
I remember my very first Sony Walkman, that played "cassette tapes" and meant my music was suddenly mobile.
I remember the Sweeney and the Professionals, and Status Quo before they had to reform to become good again.

Lots of stuff that I remember used to be good once. When it was all we knew and had nothing better. But which I soon forgot when something better came along.

Ahhhh... I do faintly recall my first foray into trolling done via CompuServe. Heady days.

TTony · August 2013

Sometimes I feel that this place is full of a load of old farts reminiscing about how good the old days were ...

But othertimes, I feel that this place is full of a load of old farts moaning about how much worse stuff is today ...

And then I realise that I'm one of them, and wonder what happened.

Phil_aka_Pip · August 2013

Yes. If you're disillusioned with the present and you dread the future, where else is there to look but the past?

bertie · August 2013

RAIR black box anyone ?

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