[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Neil

The good old days , well maybe not that good. We have it easy now compared to just a few years ago. I don't think I would have got many jobs if I had sent my CV in on Sinclair thermal paper

Oh I'd totally forgotten that stuff! We usedto have some micro-encapsulated paper in our "computer terminals" at work which was fine if you remembered to separate the two sheets before folding or you'd burst the bubbles and get lines across the paper. Those terminals were a laugh a minute - great lumbering keyboards on legs that went for a walk across the office if they weren't fastened down! And they had paper tape punchers attached so that any time we were offline we punched the transactions and then sent the spools of tape to the CPU which was housed in a warehouse in Wythenshawe!