@velvet donkey posted:I remember Gordon Strachan with an interviewer, Can you give me a fast word Gordon -" velocity"
brilliant velvet
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@slimfern posted:Such attention to detail for a creature that only lives a maximum of 6mths
aaawww such a shame-its quite cute slim
@El Loro posted:That's not something I've ever seen and have no intention of doing so
nor me EL
night EL slim moonsieeee
Could be the end of the era of fax machines not that I have one 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63472371
Hope it sorts itself
Might aswell pop into my home 
@El Loro posted:Could be the end of the era of fax machines not that I have one
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63472371
Thought they were dead and buried already
@velvet donkey posted:Hope it sorts itself
Might aswell pop into my home
@slimfern posted:*Locks El in so he can't disappear*
It's scheduled work by Virgin Media and is just during today (they say) 
@slimfern posted:Thought they were dead and buried already
I've used fax machines twice over the years. The second time was when I had to send a reference for a client by fax. I had to go to the local garage and use the one they had though that's some 15 years ago so I doubt if they still have one.
The first time was when I was still at the firm I used to work for.It would have been about 35 years ago. I was an audit manager, one of the clients was a listed company on the stock exchange. The client decided to sell off one of its companies. The firm's London office corporate section was in overall charge of the work we had to do as part of the transaction. I and the Gloucester partner were responsible at this end. For a few months this had to be kept under wraps. So other than I, the partner and the London corporate section, nobody else (other than the client senior directors) had any knowledge of this. It had to be to prevent what's called insider trading happening, that was until the client made a formal stick exchange announcement. So, as no-one else in our office could have any knowledge of what was going on, the secretaries who would have normally done the faxing couldn't and I had to do what faxing was needed (to send documents to the London corporate team).
We had to set up a fictitious client on the compuerised time records to keep this quiet. Turned out that therer was another client in the film with a similar name and I got a call from the manager of that client asking what this was about and all I could say that this was nothing to do with his client.
The audit files for previous years had to be scrutinised by the London corporate team so were out of the office for some time. So I had to keep up with excuses with others in the office as to why the files weren't there.
So quite an interesting time
@El Loro posted:I've used fax machines twice over the years. The second time was when I had to send a reference for a client by fax. I had to go to the local garage and use the one they had though that's some 15 years ago so I doubt if they still have one.
The first time was when I was still at the firm I used to work for.It would have been about 35 years ago. I was an audit manager, one of the clients was a listed company on the stock exchange. The client decided to sell off one of its companies. The firm's London office corporate section was in overall charge of the work we had to do as part of the transaction. I and the Gloucester partner were responsible at this end. For a few months this had to be kept under wraps. So other than I, the partner and the London corporate section, nobody else (other than the client senior directors) had any knowledge of this. It had to be to prevent what's called insider trading happening, that was until the client made a formal stick exchange announcement. So, as no-one else in our office could have any knowledge of what was going on, the secretaries who would have normally done the faxing couldn't and I had to do what faxing was needed (to send documents to the London corporate team).
We had to set up a fictitious client on the compuerised time records to keep this quiet. Turned out that therer was another client in the film with a similar name and I got a call from the manager of that client asking what this was about and all I could say that this was nothing to do with his client.
The audit files for previous years had to be scrutinised by the London corporate team so were out of the office for some time. So I had to keep up with excuses with others in the office as to why the files weren't there.
So quite an interesting time
Sneaky El 
I've used them in the past, although not for anything near as exciting as you
They're very noisy machines 
@slimfern posted:Sneaky El
I've used them in the past, although not for anything near as exciting as you
They're very noisy machines
I know they are very noisy machines
Years ago I had a few phone calls which were just discordant noises. I realised that someone had sent me a fax via an ordinary phone line 
@El Loro posted:I know they are very noisy machines
Years ago I had a few phone calls which were just discordant noises. I realised that someone had sent me a fax via an ordinary phone line
Quite a common thing to happen before the double telephone socket adapter became popular. Prior to them, using the same socket for both telephone and fax was as you say
I remember when the Spectrum first came out, it had a similar noise when loading a programme
Some improvements in technology have been a blessing since then
@slimfern posted:Quite a common thing to happen before the double telephone socket adapter became popular. Prior to them, using the same socket for both telephone and fax was
I remember when the Spectrum first came out, it had a similar noise when loading a programme
Some improvements in technology have been a blessing since then
I was one of those who ordered a Spectrum when it was first announced. I waited a long time, eventually heard that the employees at the factory they were being manufactured were on indefinite strike. So I cancelled the order and bought an Atari 800 instead
Games on the Atari 800 took ages to load if they were on cassette. There was one game which had the idea of adding a music track to the cassette to listen to whilst the game was loading. I can't remember the name of the game after all this time but the music used was:
@El Loro posted:Games on the Atari 800 took ages to load if they were on cassette. There was one game which had the idea of adding a music track to the cassette to listen to whilst the game was loading. I can't remember the name of the game after all this time but the music used was:
Any of these El?
https://www.mobygames.com/deve.../developerId,258642/
@slimfern posted:Any of these El?
https://www.mobygames.com/deve.../developerId,258642/
Thanks for looking, Slim , but the game would be earlier than any of those, sometime in the mid 1980s.
There was a games company called Synapse who had quite a lot of games for the Atari (and Commodore 64). For its time, their games were amongst the best but by modern standards very primitive. One of the games was called Necromancer which was quite a strange game and not easy to play or to understand what was going on. (and nothing to do with necromancy). I think it might have been that game. The Berlioz music was only on the cassette tape to listen to whilst the game loaded, it wasn't part of the music used in the game. One can find clips of the game on Youtube but those would just have the game soundtrack.
@El Loro posted:Thanks for looking, Slim
There was a games company called Synapse who had quite a lot of games for the Atari (and Commodore 64). For its time, their games were amongst the best but by modern standards very primitive. One of the games was called Necromancer which was quite a strange game and not easy to play or to understand what was going on. (and nothing to do with necromancy). I think it might have been that game. The Berlioz music was only on the cassette tape to listen to whilst the game loaded, it wasn't part of the music used in the game. One can find clips of the game on Youtube but those would just have the game soundtrack.
Strange name to call it if it isn't anything to do with raising the dead
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@slimfern posted:Strange name to call it if it isn't anything to do with raising the dead
If you were to do a search on Atari Necromance you would find a wiki article on it which gives some details about the three stages of the game, I can't post a link as it's one of those wiki articles which has brackets in the address,
Hero is a wiizard who tries to create trees as allies in the first stage but gets attacked by ogres and spiders. Second stage is a vault with crypts with spider eggs inside - the wizard and the trees who surviced the first stage try to destoy those spide eggs from hatching, Third stage is the confrontontation between the wizard and the necromancerr, is set in a graveyard where the wizard tries to destry graves as the necromancer rises from those grvaes, the wizard is at the same time trying to fend off spiders not kiiled off in the second stage and kill off the nectomancer. For its time one of the strangest and imaginative of video games.
@El Loro posted:If you were to do a search on Atari Necromance you would find a wiki article on it which gives some details about the three stages of the game, I can't post a link as it's one of those wiki articles which has brackets in the address,
Hero is a wiizard who tries to create trees as allies in the first stage but gets attacked by ogres and spiders. Second stage is a vault with crypts with spider eggs inside - the wizard and the trees who surviced the first stage try to destoy those spide eggs from hatching, Third stage is the confrontontation between the wizard and the necromancerr, is set in a graveyard where the wizard tries to destry graves as the necromancer rises from those grvaes, the wizard is at the same time trying to fend off spiders not kiiled off in the second stage and kill off the nectomancer. For its time one of the strangest and imaginative of video games.
Ermm, I'm not sure I'd like that game...sounds a bit scary 
The Spectrum had some good games and adventures, but the graphics compared to today's were very basic...hard to be scared of a figure that looked like something off a Lowry painting
Of course today's offerings have somewhat improved and are in some cases like being in a film. 
@slimfern posted:Ermm, I'm not sure I'd like that game...sounds a bit scary
The Spectrum had some good games and adventures, but the graphics compared to today's were very basic...hard to be scared of a figure that looked like something off a Lowry painting
Of course today's offerings have somewhat improved and are in some cases like being in a film.
The Atari 800 was a 8 bit computer as was the Spectrum so graphics were too basic for the game to be that scary
@El Loro posted:The Atari 800 was a 8 bit computer as was the Spectrum so graphics were too basic for the game to be that scary
Ah okay
I've never had a go on an Atari.
From memory, we went from a Spectrum to the desktop computer, plus Nintendo and Playstation gaming consoles.
As you can imagine, having a large family, we went through a lot of games