Date   : Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:48:07 +0000
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Disc Fights (WAS: Grammar)

David Hunt wrote:
> Notwithstanding, your discus example (I was rather good at field not so good
> at track) we used to have floppy disc fights at school (dead discs of
> course) throwing them at each other down the corridors, wow they didn't half
> sting if you were unfortunate enough to receive a high velocity example to
> the face!

I only recall this occurring once at my school, but I received a severe 
laceration to the side of my neck :-)

3.5" disks were the norm during my formative years, so this practice would have 
been distinctly hazardous!

Sadly, I never got to use Beebs at secondary school - they were all replaced by 
RM Nimbi shortly after I started. And my primary school was terrified of 
technology, and I think the entire school only had one Beeb, and no member of 
staff knew how to work it so it never got switched on from one year to the next.

I had a Spectrum at home, so my only real contact with Beebs at that time was 
one my Dad used to borrow occasionally from work. But I made up for it later, 
though :-)