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@sgunhouse said in six × nine = ?:
as most of the content here appears human.
So we're doing an excellent job!
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@guigirl said in six × nine = ?:
@hlehyaric Didn't someone say that a forum mod some weeks/months ago now let us flag individual posters?
Yes, you can flag users as well & it's not a mod, it's a forum feature. Anyway, you can't target a topic title (btw, I'm not sure it's necessary except for this very case…).
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@guigirl Exactly.
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@guigirl I am forced to object to this post. The Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't wear socks - indeed, doesn't technically have feet.
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I will admit to having feet, but I'm not the one you need to beg for mercy. Though if She thinks of it at all She might find it funny.
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Can I flag the entire US media?
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@guigirl All the islands already claimed, even that new one off Japan? Or they just too close -- you want to be a million miles away while Earth is just under 8000?
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Uhh, what’s happened, @pafflick? Has this been going on for a long time in the background, or is it a recent change?
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@potmeklecbohdan It's very recent.
There's also one new face joining, as well as one old one... 
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@pafflick I can’t figure out who they are, though I have seen RealMat0s [who still seems to use the moderator badge] posting something in the Vivaldi Blog category a moment ago.
Anyway, that’s great news, innit? Congrats
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@potmeklecbohdan Thanks! That's the "old face" I was talking about.
The other one has just joined the forums, I'm pretty sure he'll pop up somewhere in here soon. 
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I gather no one here is aware of groups? Too bad not sorted by age, but it's right there.
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@sgunhouse Yeah, that’s what I tried & where I found the ‘old face’ – & after pafflick said the new one is really a fresh account, going through the letter-faced members wasn’t that hard. But maybe they should first show up before being @ -ed
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@guigirl I immediately thought of Sir Clive Sinclair as I had one of his Sinclair 2048 computers. Then I read further.
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@greybeard That was the Timex-Sinclair 2048, I had one also. It was just a slightly modified Sinclair Spectrum (also called ZXSpectrum). After that was the Sinclair QL, though Timex never brought those to this country.
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@guigirl Technically, it has to kill him to qualify for a Darwin award. Then again, just give it time ...
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@sgunhouse We may be getting a bit OT here but I also had a QL. Seems they were available in Canada (had Sinclair, CSA approved power supply).
It was a former lifetime. Their internal tape drive was hit and miss for me so it never saw the use that the Timex-Sinclair 2048 saw. I had both the Larken and Portuguese Disc Drive systems which had two 3" single sided drives for the 2048. Adapted it for double sided 5 1/4" floppy drives. Much more useful as the 3" discs were hard to get and expensive. -
@greybeard I originally had an AERCO disk on my 2048, but found out I could get a ROM cartridge and convert it to a Larken system. The AERCO unit came with a 5-1/4" drive, but the 3.5" units had twice the capacity so I added one of those later.
The AERCO and Larken formats were incompatible despite using the same hardware. AERCO was essentially dead while both Larry Kenny and the Toronto Timex-Sinclair Users Group were still active.Easy choice.
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@guigirl Only people who used computers more than 35 years will ever know.
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@sgunhouse said in six × nine = ?:
Toronto Timex-Sinclair Users Group
I remember it fondly, I was a member for many years.
