I had a Vic 20 believe it had 4k of ram and a 128!
Those were the days......

What! Not even a 128!?😲😉
Wonder how many knew then what the numbers actually meant! 😁

I must admit I did have a commodore 64 😱

Naaah, that was a load of brown stuff compared with the Atari 800.
All 'wibbly wobbly' 🤔
Would have liked to have fooled about with the C5 though.
Also have to admit that I still have one of the original Sinclair pocket calculators, came as a DIY kit in those days! halcyon pioneering days, great fun 😎

Now your showing your age Doug you will be on about the Sinclair next 😂

Agree Fred, I have to admit I have a Kindle Fire, but only so I can take a library of Clive Cussler with me on holiday. 😉
Sorry to hear of your HP problems, my last HP computer was an HP85 around 1975! The one with the little built in B/W screen and the Ski game!
Since Dave died HP seems to have gone downhill 🤔
For the last 25 years or so I have only used DELL laptops, private and business machines, no problems. The PC I am using now is also a Dell workstation. And No I don't have shares or a franchise😉
There are today some really good notebooks on the market, not much bigger or heavier, than tablets but with much better, i.e. complete, operating systems. Acer for instance.
I'm still not convinced by the tablet marketing, lots of promises but in practise not much delivery. And Apple I've never liked, full of stuff I don't need and links to other businesses I certainly don't want! I was an Atari fan in the early days.
Glad to hear that some of my waffling has been useful 😊
Greetings from an Old Sea Dog as me old Mum calls me, cheers Doug 😎

Hi RNinMunic

Yes I do agree with some of what you are saying, but some of the members can not take a laptop with them or do not have a laptop, so far my HP laptop has been back to HP four times for repair, I am now thinking of an Apple laptop,
As for going away I have to take a cpap with me for the medical problems that I have, to carry thatlaptop help the wife who is disabled and only having two hands, at times I feel I need more hands.

Sorry rant over.

Look you have given a lot of advice to a lot of members and I bet you will keep on doing so, in the past you have given me some advice that has made me look at things in a different light,🤔

One thing I use my tablet more to read e-books than as a hand held P/C,

Fred

It's a good idea and I can see how this is useful on mobile platforms. I'm currently working on a new website so will take it into consideration. The new site is being built from the ground up to support any device and any screensize.

One thing you can do on iPhone and iPads at least, is tap the top status bar where the clock is displayed. This will scroll to the top of the page you're viewing. in the blog section it's also possible to view newest posts first, although this makes less sense for forum threads so they're likely to stay in chronological order.

Not at a point to release more details on the new website, but I think you'll all be very pleased with it when it arrives! As Doug says we are a volunteer run website, so sometimes things take a bit more time, but we get there!

Thanks for the feedback.

Stephen

No comment. BUT ...
I haven't wasted any money on a tablet and a dumbphone is good enough for phoning and SMS, anything else at your peril. All the other trash I delete and deinstall.
After a career in comms engineering, including the beginnings of mobile telephony NMT (Scandinavia), AMPS (USA) and TACS (UK) I could see where it was going.
If on your tablet you ain't got an equivalent of CtrlPos1 or ControlEnd then it just confirms my opinion that they ain't worth the hard earned cash.
Please don't come with the 'When I'm travelling' argument cos when I'm travelling I have other things to do, or take a decent Laptop with me.
Basic thing I don't like about Tablets or, so called Smartphones, is the diminutive screen sizes. Not to mention limited operating systems. Never mind memory or external interfaces.
Each to his own but catering for every foible of every Tablet / 'Smartphone' would most probably bust the budget of the site and more than overload the VOLUNTARY guys who do great service to keep this site going. Which incidentally I find is the best Model Boat site going, and I have tried all sorts from Germany to USA and back.
Basically what you want is a function of your display device and not the site you are viewing. And don't come back with 'but some sites do that' cos they only use the commands available in the operating system that is displaying them.

BTW: with WLAN (as long as it has AES / WPA2 or not if you don't care about security) you can also use a decent Laptop / Notebook from the sofa! 😎 PS Was a little surprised at your comment DD 🤔

OK the thing is on some tablets you are unable to do this, and as KMBcsecretary said a last button or new post would be of some help.

Went to see the film Last Post when I was a teenager.😁

Seriously though folks (as if I can be serious for more than 5 minutes 😁)
To jump to the last post in a thread just press 'Ctrl' and 'End' 👍
Happy jumping (with or without bungeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee😲)

Last Post about 09.30am😂 in Peacehaven

Hi Ron, short cut back to the top of long threads (or anything else on PC) is to Press 'Ctrl' and 'Pos1'.
For the 'to Last Post' click here -
https://ia800204.us.archive.org/7/items/TheLastPost/The_Last_Post.mp3
'Ten-hut'!