MIGHTY DEEP STUPID THREAD VI

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,844
    edited December 1969

    It's stupid that my keyboard got wet and is now unusable. Good thing Windows 8 has an onscreen keyboard.

    spilt your coffee?
  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    It's stupid that my keyboard got wet and is now unusable. Good thing Windows 8 has an onscreen keyboard.

    spilt your coffee?

    Maybe something on the Internet surprised him, and he spat his coffee instead. - It happens :-P

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I bet his any key got stuck and he hosed his Keyboard down with WD40...

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  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Posts: 376
    edited January 2013

    Hah, you guys are so funny. Lol.

    But no, it's a bloody roof leak I've been bitching to my land lady about for months now. Every time it rains more than a few hours water starts dripping in.

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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    I bet his any key got stuck and he hosed his Keyboard down with WD40...

    An any key? I like that :-P

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969

    Spyro said:
    Jaderail said:
    I bet his any key got stuck and he hosed his Keyboard down with WD40...

    An any key? I like that :-P
    Yeah, that's the key you press to continue.

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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    LMAO... That does have a call for Any key lol...

    At first when it askes "WARNING ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE T: WILL BE LOST! Procede with format Y/N?" - I was thinking hmmm any key would be interesting to press there HAHA

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969

    On behalf of Geeks everywhere, I would like thank Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o; because of him it is OK for us all to have imaginary girlfriends.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Spyro said:
    LMAO... That does have a call for Any key lol...

    At first when it askes "WARNING ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE T: WILL BE LOST! Procede with format Y/N?" - I was thinking hmmm any key would be interesting to press there HAHA

    LOL! I spy with my little eye a user that does not go as far back as Tjohn and I. Press Any Key was in loads of Basic and Batch files back in the day. Heck even full blown Prg's had it in the code sometimes.
  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,458
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Spyro said:
    LMAO... That does have a call for Any key lol...

    At first when it askes "WARNING ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE T: WILL BE LOST! Procede with format Y/N?" - I was thinking hmmm any key would be interesting to press there HAHA

    LOL! I spy with my little eye a user that does not go as far back as Tjohn and I. Press Any Key was in loads of Basic and Batch files back in the day. Heck even full blown Prg's had it in the code sometimes.

    Hey now I still write basic and batch files.. when not using powershell..

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    How could we ever have worked, back in the day, without an ANY key :roll:

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 25,705
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    How could we ever have worked, back in the day, without an ANY key :roll:

    I do not have an any key on my keyboard. Bummer

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    How could we ever have worked, back in the day, without an ANY key :roll:

    I do not have an any key on my keyboard. BummerHere ya go I haz a few extra....

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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    hehe! Would be cool to have a key board with an "any" key.

    I'm one of those computer users that rarely see the command window. Although, having said that, I did see one about an hour ago... I had to force shut down my computer ... It froze :( then it checked my drives for something that I know nothing about lol... After that, I decided it was time to install the system updates... and Nvidia since the freeze was related to the graphics, while I was dabbling in Garibaldi. Turns out my Nvidia was out of date, and I dont recall ever updating it... mind you all my system updates were auto until I got sick of it... No idea if Nvidia is auto with auto system updates.

  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Posts: 376
    edited January 2013

    Computers were rather abstract back then. You often got messages like 'Insert disk' too. People were smarter back then I guess.

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  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,458
    edited December 1969

    Computers were rather abstract back then. You often got messages like 'Insert disk' too. People were smarter back then I guess.

    *snicker* insert boot disk was common, because folks left floppy disks in the drive all the time..

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969
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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    Some computers would get a boot inserted too! LOL

    I remember those floppy disks that held very little information... also had a tendency to corrupt (Or at least, i was given old ones the family didn't need anymore) and then small 125mb usb flash drives came out. (They were unreliable after like 12 months) I kept one of my first ones until recently. Kept it alive with re-formatting. Now flash drives hold more than DVD's!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited January 2013

    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited January 2013

    tjohn said:
    Holy Crap! Not seen those in years and the Ani Was cool in it's day. Did you ever catch any of those Flip the Frog ones that were running around back then.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhYmCNDbXy0
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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    OK I'm mystified. What is that?
  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,458
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    Holy mackeral, I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Holy Crap! Not seen those in years and the Ani Was cool in it's day. Did you ever catch any of those Flip the Frog ones that were running around back then.
    Oh yeah. And his girlfriend Clarisse the Cat? Yep. :)
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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.
    Eck!!
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    OK I'm mystified. What is that?

    It's a National Ledger Posting Machine. I did bought and sold ledger of Forward contracts for the Foreign Currency dealing room in a major Bank in the City (London)

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited January 2013

    tjohn said:
    Jaderail said:
    Holy Crap! Not seen those in years and the Ani Was cool in it's day. Did you ever catch any of those Flip the Frog ones that were running around back then.

    Oh yeah. And his girlfriend Clarisse the Cat? Yep. :)ARG!! Your search foo is mighty my friend, I bow to the master.

    P.S. I had both those disks. And DPaint.
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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 13,395
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    Wow, that is old

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    Wow, that is old
    Uh-oh. I anticipate a fuzzy head-bonking with Cho's club. (closes eyes)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,018
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    tjohn said:
    Jaderail said:
    Holy Crap! Not seen those in years and the Ani Was cool in it's day. Did you ever catch any of those Flip the Frog ones that were running around back then.

    Oh yeah. And his girlfriend Clarisse the Cat? Yep. :)ARG!! Your search foo is mighty my friend, I bow to the master.

    P.S. I had both those disks. And DPaint.
    Me too. BTW, the creator of the juggler ani on the Amiga was Eric Wenger. I'll bet Cho remembers that name. :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Wenger

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,586
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    I bet his any key got stuck and he hosed his Keyboard down with WD40...

    ...I actually had an "Any" key on my old 286. It had a couple programmable function keys which had a clear overlay you could slip a paper key label into.
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