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Lets have a clean joke thread. Laughter heals as they say. (NO NASTY, OBSCENE OR COVID19!)

I've used a type of pre-fax telex machine too, you type on a keyboard like a typewriter and what you type gets printed at the other end too.

Also used to use a computer that was in it's own air-conditioned room, the room was always locked, you had to lock the door behind you when you went in. Had to sit at and use a 'Dec Writer' to work with the computer in this room, it was like a massive typewriter, everything you typed was printed and every reply you got from the computer was printed. Had to do backups involving signing everyone around the site out of their terminals (which did have screens like a normal computer), dismount and eject (a big drawer slid out of a computer housing) a massive hard disk cartridge about a foot wide lol, twist the top to unclip it, insert another hard disk, press another button and it slid back in. Racks of modems and routers etc with loads of flashing lights just behind where you sat at the deckwriter... What could possibly go wrong? This wasn't my BBC computer or a ZX Spectrum lol. I imagined the scene from Some Mothers Do Ave Em with Frank Spencer working at the computer centre, making one mistake and the company losing all track of all its stock and underpaying everyone's wages to boot, wouldn't be very popular if that happened lol. It also gave you a sense of talking / interacting with 'Mother' in 2001 Space Odysey... with repurcussions if you made a mistake or did something stupid which could've meant loss of all data for this company warehouse with the boss being able to see a transcript of your complete interaction with the computer and what you did wrong lol, but it also felt like there could be worse repercussions along the lines of Mother in 2001 if the computer didn't like you, like it might decide to suddenly suck all the air out of the room / poison gas coming out of AC vents / turning off life support to make the temperature - 150C etc lol. It was eventually replaced with a computer no bigger than a little desktop PC box, aircon switched off, the Decwriter eventually went too, backups went onto a little tape cartridge you could stick in the front of this little computer, didn't keep the door locked anymore. The old hard disks were probably only about 10Mbytes, the modems only 9600 baud, routers with all the flashing lights etc just old spec ethernet stuff, lot more computing power in a modern phone. When they switched to the little computer I thought 'Ha youre not so scary anymore' lol, learned to program it from the other office on one of the terminals and made it play games and stuff lol. But when it was the old computer I wanted to pull its chips out while making it sing / type back to me like in Space Odysey. :joy: The only other thing to worry about was the time I cracked the photocopier taking a copy of my arse one early morning, said I knew nothing about that one though.
 
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