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HappyDude Posted Jan 11, 2009
I'm back 
I'm afraid I had PC issues over Christmas and new year - I hope everyone had a good time 
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myk Posted Jan 11, 2009
Uneventful xmas & new year-yea good start ! Hey wish i was in London new Years Eve - i caught the fireworks display on the tv-best display i have seen in a few years
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Hope you still had a nice Christmas and New Years-pc issue or no!
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myk Posted Jan 12, 2009
Here is something you might like; its a restoration project for an early ICL mainframe-it is somewhere in Kent-i believe.
http://ict1301.co.uk/13010110.htm
here is a link from that page, about a visit from the actual designer of that machine-who is now 81 years young.
http://ict1301.co.uk/13010210.htm
(They are on the look out for extra racking and boxes to hold the original
punched cards [of which they have quite alot by the sound of it]-also)
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jan 13, 2009
I used to own a 1901a, a twin-CPU descendant of that machine. One tape drive had been removed and two motorcycles were parked in the hole. 
I still may have the receipt for it somewhere... (Unlikely but possible!)
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myk Posted Jan 13, 2009
You had an ICL 1900 mainframe in your garage?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jan 13, 2009
Specifically a 1901a, and it was in a friend's garage. At the time I was living in digs and had nowhere to keep it - I just bought it to have the receipt to say I owned a mainframe. 
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myk Posted Jan 13, 2009
Everyone wants a mainframe in their living room nowdays.
Thats great -whatever did happen to your 1901a?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jan 16, 2009
"whatever did happen to your 1901a?"
Sadly, I just let it rot in my friend's garage until I lost touch with him. That was over 20 years ago now, so I assume it's long gone.
I bought it from GACS (the Grampian Amateur Computer Society) for £10, which would be the equivalent of about £200 these days. It was donated to them, but they didn't have room for it in the shed where they held their meetings, and it wasn't working.
celery???
HappyÐude® MK II in a yellow polka dot bikini Posted Jan 10, 2010
We regret to inform all that due to somebody (no names mentioned) getting a little tipsy on fermented celery juice and losing their keys that HappyÐude® is now under new management.
celery???
myk Posted Jan 10, 2010
Thats bloody amazing m8 £10, fur a bleein mainframe lol.
Alright Happy
Celery???
Shea the Sarcastic Posted Jan 15, 2010
::pokes Happy::
Oh wait, wrong place. I'm so confused!
::leaves some celery::
Celery???
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jan 17, 2010
If your eating the celery... can I have all this 
to myself? 
Celery???
HappyÐude® MK II in a yellow polka dot bikini Posted Jan 18, 2010
of course my dear fellow, I surprised nobody else has ben tempted by the <celery>
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