Builders/Carpenetrs

[Thunderbolt]

Chippy,

I'm sure you are very good at your job and if you did start your business in Portugal, I'd probably be a client!

I've been reading the posts and didn't understand a word. Blinded by science.

I definitely think that it's important to have people in the know deal with all that stuff. I'd probably end up giving myself and afro and a nice tan without going to the beach if you see what I mean.

Maybe I could employ you to wire the fantastic new business I'm planning to open (if I don't get put off by all the negative feedback about opening something in Portugal).

[Chippy]

You helped design PONG!!........I bow before you....


I spent too much of my youth playing that......and now at 47 have degenerated to PC games like COD.......so it's all your fault....lol

Over saturday 2nd for a week....beer will be taken....

[Guest]

PONG....Yes ...it was all discrete transistórs ( few chips available at the time).....B & W..although later we used a simple Phase shift coil/Cap network to give us some sort of colour.......eventually we put it all in one chip....but only for the US system (NTSC)......so how did we sell it to the UK ....well we sold it complete with a little screwdriver and a slip of paper telling users to adjust the vertical hold on their TV to stop it rolling.......try that today.(No Vert Adj nowdays) ..consumers were very different in those days...we sold over 100K USA standard Pongs to UK ...without complaint...wonderful days...I ended up supplying drams to the industry ..which ruined my life because here I am retited and bored stiff building a bloody Garage..AAhh....
Sorry cannt meet you for a beer. nxt week..I'm in UK tonight for couple of weeks. Ciao....let me know when you'r down nxt time...

[Chippy]

thanks guest ( O Great inventor of the mighty Pong)

Beer next time

(..and I probably bought a bit of your dram in my time with a pc company in the basingstoke area....)

....36hrs ....and I'm in CVO !!! wahayyyy