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And...a lot of things are considerably older than you might think.
For example, how old is the fax machine? 50's?
Yes, the 50s - the 1850's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Bakewell[^]
(I first met this years ago on a program called Local Heroes[^] - if you can ignore his dress sense, the programs are worth a watch if you find them.)
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This topic is even older than you might think.
You posted on the origin of the fax machine back in 2010.
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Hey! I have difficulty remembering what I posted last Tuesday! 
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Yeah you posted that line back in 1856 too. Gotta get on your A-game there Griff.
Jeremy Falcon
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Maybe at 18:56 - I haven't got the time machine working yet. Or perhaps I will...
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Local Heroes, Adam Hart-Davis? off to youtube we go!
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OriginalGriff wrote: a lot of things are considerably older than you might think.
I hope (in some ways) I fit in that category. 
Marc
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You are forever young, my friend!
Or...you are as old as the woman you feel. Which may be illegal in some states.
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Ha. Some considerably younger woman fired a barrage of flirt-and-forget missiles at me. When I returned fire, she complained to personnel.
Pretty Vacant.
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correctly is the "Z3" of Konrad Zuse the first "Touring complaint computer".
But isnt that a computer: Antikythera Mechanism .
I like such hand crafted ancient stuff. At most the Gold of Scythia 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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My first job (1971) was an apprentice technician for BT (then part of the post office) International Telegraph division. We had a fax machine linked to the US. It was about the size of my dining table and probably operated at either 50 or 75 baud(bits per second)!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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When I was in the SA Air Force, in the '90s, I manned a Telex link between our weather bureau and Antarctica. Also 50 baud comms. It was over HF radio, because higher frequencies didn't span the distance, and sattelite wasn't properly set up.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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UK telex was all 50 baud (the US had 75). I used to work on telex machines which were amazing bits of kit, full of cams, latches, bellcranks and pawls.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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...now I can move anything but CP to the secondary monitor...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Let's have a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) on that !
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I had 4 at one point, but I could only fit three on my desk so am currently down to three 
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I'm still getting used to two... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm sorry, but anything over two makes you a poser.
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I have 7 - I ran out desk space as well!
I develop for multiple browsers and need to have at least four open at once. Then add VS, CP, email, task manager, file manager, services and a service debug window and I barely have enough room on 7! No posing involved - my boss/colleague has eight - he has a special stand that allows a two-high arrangement - and my other developer colleague has 6 (he's not on CP, poor guy).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's not the size of your monitors, you know, it's what you do with them...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's not what she said
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A small monitor well used may indeed be a better proposition than a larger one used poorly.
However, an an beatable combination is a large monitor used well. 
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: ...now I can move anything but CP to the secondary monitor...
That's not what I would call a design flaw.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... the moment where Shift+Windows Key+left/right arrows suddenly is an obvious shortcut ...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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