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Forum: Military Aviation

9th Apr 2014, 04:53

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You know you're getting old when......

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Posted By Haraka

Ah yes. Then there was "Tandem Dialling" when you...

Ah yes. Then there was "Tandem Dialling" when you dialled a long code which put you in ,then out, of exchanges along the way , enabling you to make long distance calls at local rates , or so I am...

Forum: Military Aviation

25th Mar 2014, 09:51

Replies: 234

You know you're getting old when......

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Posted By Haraka

Ditto of course Beags, but wasn't the check digit...

Ditto of course Beags, but wasn't the check digit in a bracket at one stage? eg
802****(E)
It all seemed pretty irrelevant to our minds at the time!

Forum: Military Aviation

25th Mar 2014, 08:48

Replies: 234

You know you're getting old when......

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Posted By Haraka

I seem to recall that the "check " digit (...

I seem to recall that the "check " digit ( expressed as a letter) was first around in the early 70's at least- if not a bit before. IIRC it then went away as far as we were concerned and then came...

Forum: Military Aviation

20th Mar 2014, 15:53

Replies: 234

You know you're getting old when......

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Posted By Haraka

Funnily enough my first business trip overseas as...

Funnily enough my first business trip overseas as a "civvie" was exactly that -down to Rio in a Varig DC-10 in 1982. It made a change from a sleeping bag and ear defenders in a hammock in a C 130 ....

Forum: Military Aviation

20th Mar 2014, 09:10

Replies: 234

You know you're getting old when......

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Posted By Haraka

When you don't understand most modern service...

When you don't understand most modern service acronyms

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and are none the wiser when they are explained to you.

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