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bogstandard:

--- Quote ---However, what better design could you have arrived at to meet a temporary need to copy a few hundred floppy discs eh?
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Grab a yob off the street, bung him a few squid, and let him carry on swapping discs over. I know it might be at the limit of his brain capacitity, and liable to failure after a couple of minutes, but all avenues must be explored. :lol:

But I do realise that gadgets do need to be made to circumvent problems that occur.

BTW, the Heath Robinson bit wasn't used as an insult, but a compliment. Over here, anything that fulfills a need and is made up of bits and pieces is much admired (eccentric Englishmen and all that). The more pieces, gizmos and twirly bits, the better.


John

John Hill:
John, no insult detected! :thumbup:

Re Heath Robinson, we had a related concept in the place I used to work called the "HBS"  where HBS stood for "hare brained scheme",  someone would dream up some really weird way of doing something then we would all work on it and quite often find some useful morsel of inventivness we could use.

bogstandard:
I would just like to correct you on an English language terminology.

If you were talking to a southerner (Watford gap and down) then SARNIE is the correct term, above that dividing line, BUTTIES are usually eaten, but of course, many dialects reside here, and they have all sorts of wierd and wonderful names for the lowly sandwich.

As for the Welsh and Scots and Irish, I have no idea, they are most probably still eating each other.


John

John Hill:
Point taken John, it is all basic kai to me. :med:

Darren:
Bechdan in this part of the word.

But I say Sarnie and I'm from the Midlands.... :thumbup:

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