[Gllug] Open Source Hardware User Group meeting on Thursday.

[Richard Lewis]

At Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:27:16 +0100,
general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> 
> Andrew Back wrote:
> > On (13:59 28/04/10), Martyn Drake wrote:
> >   
> >> On 28 April 2010 13:30, Andrew Back <andrew at osmosoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> Also note that whilst Beta formats continued to enjoy popularity for industrial
> >>> applications, it wasn't much fun growing up in the 80s/90s as the kid in the
> >>> class whose parents remained committed to their Betamax or Laserdisc
> >>> investment...
> >>>       
> >> Well, that may be, but at least you could always say that you had the
> >> superior format ;)
> >>     
> >
> > Yes, as you watched those seven same films over and over again :o) When I
> > was a child we had a Grundy Newbrain, and despite my father's claims of this
> > being superior I still coveted the ZX Spectrum which nearly all my friends
> > had.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >   
> 
> *dons cloth cap* Pah you were lucky to have 7!
> 
> My folks had a Feguson videostar VHS toploader when they first came out
> and for many, many years me and my brother only had 3 films - Star wars,
> Diamonds are forever and Moonraker, all taped of ITV round Christmas
> resplendent with hand painted inserts, Nannette Newman era Fairy Liquid
> ads and gravelly voiced continuity announcers. Watched them thin we did.
>
Yeah, I still know where all the ad breaks go in Return of the Jedi.
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