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    Commodore 64 turns 30

    BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

    I have decidely mixed feelings about the 64. My youthful enthusiasm with "peeking" and "poking" led me to do a computer engineering degree rather than something more generic and long-term useful.
    Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
    Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

    I have decidely mixed feelings about the 64. My youthful enthusiasm with "peeking" and "poking" led me to do a computer engineering degree rather than something more generic and long-term useful.
    Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
    Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.

    Commodore USA

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      #3
      I think your index finger is put to much better use when used for typing on a keyboard.

      Certainly far better than being used to perform an examination of a patients rear passage.

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        #4
        Originally posted by sasguru View Post
        BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

        I have decidely mixed feelings about the 64. My youthful enthusiasm with "peeking" and "poking" led me to do a computer engineering degree rather than something more generic and long-term useful.
        Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
        Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.
        So what would you have done when you failed medical school entry?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
          So what would you have done when you failed medical school entry?
          At the time, 3 As required and not even in hard subjects like Maths and Physics.
          In the event got two As and a B including Maths and Physics.
          If they didn't like the B, would have retaken next year

          HTH, thicko.
          Hard Brexit now!
          #prayfornodeal

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            #6
            Get yourself a Commodore 64 PC and relive the good times...

            Rebirth of the Commodore 64 PC | ForeverGeek
            'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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              #7
              playing that video made me realise what an old fecker I am.

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                #8
                Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707]Oddly if computers hadn't existed then I would have tried to get into medical school.
                Life might have been very different. But I can't say better, necessarily.
                I think your manner is more suited to the back room coding than the bedside.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by escapeUK View Post
                  I think your manner is more suited to the back room coding than the bedside.
                  ++++++1

                  Imagine all the cretinous twunts you'd encounter as a civil servant

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                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                    At the time, 3 As required and not even in hard subjects like Maths and Physics.
                    In the event got two As and a B including Maths and Physics.
                    If they didn't like the B, would have retaken next year

                    HTH, thicko.
                    I work with medical doctors. Some of them are bright enough but I can charitably see that you might have re-taken and ended up as a sub-standard GP.

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