hellbhoy Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 5 hours ago, Cerberus said: Does anyone remember the weird rumour that you could get free calls by tapping the digits of the telephone number on hang up button? 5 hours ago, welshbairn said: Not certain if it was free but you could definitely tap out the number that way. Hard to do without messing up, especially with a few zeros. We used to have a phone lock on our rotary dial up phone, it did not stop us from calling our friends when my mum used a lock on them. We just used the hook up to phone them although sometimes we phoned the wrong number. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) 5 minutes ago, hellbhoy said: We used to have a phone lock on our rotary dial up phone, it did not stop us from calling our friends when my mum used a lock on them. We just used the hook up to phone them although sometimes we phoned the wrong number. I vaguely remember trying it in a call box and the pips went when I got through, ie put money in. It was easier just to phone the operator and tell her you'd put 50p in and it swallowed the money and cut you off. Edited February 23, 2017 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Magic stuff. Remember the scandal that caused. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 At school back in the late 80s we used these ancient BBC computers.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Musketeer Gripweed said: Magic stuff. Remember the scandal that caused. Former QPR striker Les Ferdinand was involved... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/983304.stm Edited February 23, 2017 by tongue_tied_danny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 44 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I vaguely remember trying it in a call box and the pips went when I got through, ie put money in. It was easier just to phone the operator and tell her you'd put 50p in and it swallowed the money and cut you off. Yip, done that. "Hi operator, my money has just been swallowed up by the machine". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 25 minutes ago, tongue_tied_danny said: At school back in the late 80s we used these ancient BBC computers.. Same ones we used in the early 80's and late 70's by the way?, school funding problems eh?, is up there with text books that were printed back in the 60's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Computers with cassettes which took years to load games, I'd the amstrad CPC 464 with the green screen monitor. Zx spectrum and commodore 64 were other options. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 3 minutes ago, hellbhoy said: Same ones we used in the early 80's and late 70's by the way?, school funding problems eh?, is up there with text books that were printed back in the 60's. Oor school had a couple of 'computers' linked up to black and white monitors, used to be a mental rush to get a colour one. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richie Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 At school back in the late 80s we used these ancient BBC computers.. On which Granny's Garden, Mineshaft and Daredevil Dennis were played [/url] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Swordfishtrombone Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 14 hours ago, Bairnardo said: 5 minutes ago, tongue_tied_danny said: Mrs Mangel looking lovingly at Harold Bishop there... Aye but Madge hooked old Jelly Belly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 hour ago, bennett said: Oor school had a couple of 'computers' linked up to black and white monitors, used to be a mental rush to get a colour one. How we were dazzled by typing in a program which flashed your name in different colours and speeds, and I accidentally hit the green arrow by the way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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