Do do do you remember?

**Troy** · 18-02-2023, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by david44

Some 60s comics , how many can you name?

Some great family favourites there...

Frankie Howard take me straight back to the days of Up Pompeii
Tony Hancock's half hour with Sid James and Hattie Jacques and others.
Kenneth Williams and the Carry on crew
The Dick Emery show
Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
Les Dawson
?
Dave Allen
?
The Two Ronnies was also a family favourite and my Dad loved Steptoe and Son but I think that was just to annoy my mother...

**malmomike77** · 18-02-2023, 01:01 AM

last one is the goons isn't it? - spike milligan, peter sellers and harry secombe

**Troy** · 18-02-2023, 01:24 AM

^ Yes, of course, only ever heard it on the radio and didn't register.

**malmomike77** · 18-02-2023, 01:40 AM

I just remembered the cast - loved listening to the radio in the kitchen with me mum whilst she cooked - always radio 4

edit

she was a welsh girl - the family knew secombe

**Backspin** · 18-02-2023, 02:15 AM

Had this 1991 Lego technic dirtbike. It was one of the first true proportioned lego motorcycles

**Bob Mason** · 18-02-2023, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Troy

Some great family favourites there...

Frankie Howard take me straight back to the days of Up Pompeii
Tony Hancock's half hour with Sid James and Hattie Jacques and others.
Kenneth Williams and the Carry on crew
The Dick Emery show
Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
Les Dawson
?
Dave Allen
?
The Two Ronnies was also a family favourite and my Dad loved Steptoe and Son but I think that was just to annoy my mother...

The first gap is Jimmy Edwards and the last gap is "The Goons" - Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

**Troy** · 18-02-2023, 03:01 AM

^ Jeeeeeez! You were playing lego in the 90's? I remember replacing the centre piston of a Kawasaki 250 triple on the side of the road back in the 70's!! Famous for overheating, easy to strip and replace ... Those 2-strokes bring back some fantastic memories, the Suzuki GT-185 with it's electric start, was the bike I passed my test on, the GT-250 and GT-380 and then the steam kettle 750. Then there was the Yamaha RD-200 and the Kawasaki 250 triple, all crazy fantastic to ride. Wasn't long before getting the licence and moving on to the four strokes...

The Honda Four hundred four was just out of this world fantastic back in the mid 70's, i had a red Mk1 that had a rev sweet spot better than any modern vibrator for the g/f on the back, were ready before you were in those days...

Then the Honda 750 K6 to really get them going, g/f loved it far more than the F1 or F2, you got this buzzzzzz that went right through you at a certain revs and you just kept it there for the fun...GT380 had something similar.

**Backspin** · 18-02-2023, 03:12 AM

^ I was 7 years old in 1991

**malmomike77** · 18-02-2023, 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by Troy

The Honda Four hundred four was just out of this world fantastic back in the mid 70's, i had a red Mk1 that had a rev sweet spot better than any modern vibrator for the g/f on the back, were ready before you were in those days...

my first build bike, in bits. Had a blues brothers paint job on the tank - took me nearly a year to rebuild but was a sweet little motor, chipped it in with cash for a Honda 750 but always wished i'd kept it.

**Troy** · 18-02-2023, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

^ I was 7 years old in 1991

I retired from the military when you were 2 years old...and I'm a youngster compared to some on here. I suggest you remember that....

**S Landreth** · 18-02-2023, 05:07 AM

Originally Posted by Troy

For me it was in the 70's while studying Coral66 (CORAL - Wikipedia) a language I still used professionally well into the 90's.

My first was Fortran.

I remember taking cards to be read and being told to check back in a couple hours for the result.

There were so many other kids doing the same and only a couple of punch card readers.

**Backspin** · 18-02-2023, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Troy

I retired from the military when you were 2 years old...and I'm a youngster compared to some on here. I suggest you remember that....

Yeah but I'm catching up now

You being a youngster compared to some others is putting it a tad strong

**dirk diggler** · 18-02-2023, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by david44

While only a few quid , most of boys in my school were newspaper boys.
Added perks
Avoid householdd chores, homework which could be coughed or "eaten by teh dog sir"
A peek at the local lasses and the main goal for a not so lusty 13 year old

A BIKE !!!

I didnt get a BMX this could have been me

I had 7 paper rounds. 4 before school and 3 after.

The problem with taking my bmx was that it's not so simple to jump walls to consecutive terraced houses or you'd have to keep backtracking to get the bike.

Roller blades were the answer.

£105 per week tax free at 12 years old in 1994 and it complimented my 'sponsor collecting' business quite nicely too.

**dirk diggler** · 18-02-2023, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Edmond

I can taste this picture.

And also reach into my mouth to try to pull it off my teeth after around 5 minutes.

I got the Blackjacks, sister got the Fruit Salads.

Blackjacks are grey now, not the same at all.

**dirk diggler** · 18-02-2023, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Troy

^ Jeeeeeez! You were playing lego in the 90's? I remember replacing the centre piston of a Kawasaki 250 triple on the side of the road back in the 70's!! Famous for overheating, easy to strip and replace ... Those 2-strokes bring back some fantastic memories, the Suzuki GT-185 with it's electric start, was the bike I passed my test on, the GT-250 and GT-380 and then the steam kettle 750. Then there was the Yamaha RD-200 and the Kawasaki 250 triple, all crazy fantastic to ride. Wasn't long before getting the licence and moving on to the four strokes...

The Honda Four hundred four was just out of this world fantastic back in the mid 70's, i had a red Mk1 that had a rev sweet spot better than any modern vibrator for the g/f on the back, were ready before you were in those days...

Then the Honda 750 K6 to really get them going, g/f loved it far more than the F1 or F2, you got this buzzzzzz that went right through you at a certain revs and you just kept it there for the fun...GT380 had something similar.

That's the post of the year Troy.

IF you haven't greened Troy for this post you're probably too busy sucking a dick somewhere.

**Norton** · 18-02-2023, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by Latinodancer

Er...how old is Norton ?

Old enough to remember at 5 the return of my uncle from Europe in 1945.
As to my age, do the math.

**Headworx** · 18-02-2023, 01:19 PM

I can still recall the smell of this in my Grandfather's hair

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**dirk diggler** · 18-02-2023, 01:24 PM

Did yer Granny have this painting on the wall:

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And a clock that looked a bit like this?:

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**aging one** · 18-02-2023, 01:27 PM

Brylcreem had a great slogan. Brylcreem, A little dab will do ya.

**Edmond** · 18-02-2023, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Blackjacks are grey now, not the same at all.

That's the wokes for ya.

Will probably need to be renamed Coloured-Transgender-Jills soon, as to not offend.

**Troy** · 18-02-2023, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

My first was Fortran.

I remember taking cards to be read and being told to check back in a couple hours for the result.

There were so many other kids doing the same and only a couple of punch card readers.

Fortran was my first language as well but I only had to suffer the card punching at school before we moved on to punch tape. We used a manual X-Y machine to punch the cards similar to this:

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I still stick to 80 column width for my code even now. I ended up using F77 professionally well into the late 90's but I was mainly an assembler programmer back in the 80's and early 90's.

I still use the vi editor, didn't even bother moving to EMACS let alone the modern code editors of today.

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I found a teletype similar to the one we moved on to at school...

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We could also read punch tape with a feeder under the phone dial. We were allowed to dial into the GCHQ computer on Friday afternoons to run our programs. It was the first computer I ever crashed!

**david44** · 18-02-2023, 02:05 PM

Ah the Hollerith cards remember tehm well , Assembler George 2 for huge ICL machines which could do little more than my phone today.
This is a similar IBM big blue set up , we had rooms like tennis courts and huge heavy disc drives

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You would see same in some Bond villains lair yet all they did was payroll

**david44** · 18-02-2023, 02:09 PM

As a former smoker I can recall when they were advertised on TV and ads everywhere , largely to help switch brand as almost all males and many women smoked. I lived near huge tobacco factories and rented a flat from the Wills family.

Consulate were esp popular with the ladies and to mix with rougher stuff !

**Headworx** · 18-02-2023, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Did yer Granny have this painting on the wall:

No but we did at home, and had a similar clock too! What my Gran's did have was a phone that looked like this (albeit in a cleaner state) and their phone number was 37U. 3 shorts and a long ring in the homestead meant the call was for them.

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**david44** · 18-02-2023, 02:21 PM

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