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Those were the days. When people cared about documentation, when there was at least one cool electronics shop within biking distance, when people got together monthly for "user groups" that were hosted by big tech companies for free, when processors ran at 1 Mhz and that seemed fast enough. 
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Ooo, I have a copy of this book somewhere.
I don't know why as I was more interested in the 6502.
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You were probably keeping an eye on the competition so you could disparage it!
6502/6510 ruled all of Britanica. (Ultima reference)
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Half inch is a common phrase meaning to take or steal ( pinch )
in is half of inch
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Didn't even get close to that ...
I look forward to tomorrows!
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Was it too British ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, it was obvious once you told us! 
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It was a common phrase 40 or 50 years ago perhaps ...
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I would think most people would have heard of it - that said a good cruciverbalist would have got it from half inch (in) 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: I would think most people would have heard of it
Well perhaps most Brits over a certain age. But this is an international site ...
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It is but it makes compiling clues even harder than they already are - I do try and make them fair 👀
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you are also far better at it than me. 
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I can just imagine all the whingeing if team clued for 6 (ice hockey) or 12 (Canadian gridiron).
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And the answer would be ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I didn't have anything specific in mind, and might even have it backwards. Is it 11 that clues for team or the other way around? Your best sport has 15 in any case.
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I agree, I think "in = half inch" is a bit suspect for a clue. Clever, but it just feels a bit... "cheaty".
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Fair enough
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I know punctuation is normally just ignored, but in this case an additional clue might have been "take in." ... might have prompted those of us who use inches to "see" it as a familiar abbreviation rather than a word in its own right. But a good clue - I like it! Certainly trickier for those not used to British idioms though...
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Thanks Derek
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Never heard "half inch" in that context. If you'd said "half hitch" (H's optional) I would have recognised it from my youth.
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What do you call a hippies wife?
Mississippi
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
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That's so sick that it's brilliant.
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Hippies got married? Hippie - Wikipedia
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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So I had to buy a backup solution to back up my mother PC in every system shutdown event.
I decided to go for ACRONIS as supposedly it was the most advanced, professional, super, better... software of all time related to backup.
It is not.
I have two backup tasks, one for even months and one for odd months, and two USB hard disks were I store the backups (one for each backup task).
Every time I change the hard disk, I deactivate the previous task and activate the one that is paired with the current HDD.
And then, for an entire week, all the daily backups fail.
In the second week the backup tasks work without trouble.
Given I change the disks every month, that solution fails 1/4 of the time it should work.
Tired, I have bought AOMEI backupper workstation, and you know what? it just works. With unlimited updates.
It's sad when a big company like that makes this kind of things.
PS: there are plenty of forums out there with lots of people asking a solution for that problem, so it's not only me.
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