Time limit for posts?

[bonniebeth]

Do you have a cat who likes to walk on your keyboard? 

Just another theory. 

[playmofire]

Do you have a cat who likes to walk on your keyboard? 

Just another theory. 

Before the age of computers I had a cat which would sit on my knee while I was typing and try to catch the piece as it flipped up to type a letter.  When I moved house, I had to leave him and his brother with the new owner but some years later they came to stay for a holiday and he spotted the typewriter on the table, jumped up and began ferreting about with a paw in the typing basket.

[playmofire]

I've just realised that the above post may not make much sense to people who are too young to know about typewriters!  With the typewriter there was a semi-circular area between the keyboard and where the paper was which was called the typing basket.  When you hit a key on the keyboard a metal arm with a small hammer head shaped piece on the end came up out of the typing basket and hit the paper, making the appropriate letter.  Each of the hammer head shaped pieces had on it two characters, e.g. a lower case letter "a" and an upper case one so you would have 40 or so of these arms flipping up and down in turn as your typed, an ideal attraction for a cat.

[bonniebeth]

  I knew exactly what you meant! my mom has a very fine old typewriter that was hers in high school. I enjoyed playing on it as a child, before we bought an electric typewriter, which is also completely obsolete now. But that was before most people had a computer at home. It's funny; home computers only became standard very recently, within my lifetime and i'm only 25! But it's hard to remember what life was like before them.

[flatcat]

I've just realised that the above post may not make much sense to people who are too young to know about typewriters!  With the typewriter there was a semi-circular area between the keyboard and where the paper was which was called the typing basket.  When you hit a key on the keyboard a metal arm with a small hammer head shaped piece on the end came up out of the typing basket and hit the paper, making the appropriate letter.  Each of the hammer head shaped pieces had on it two characters, e.g. a lower case letter "a" and an upper case one so you would have 40 or so of these arms flipping up and down in turn as your typed, an ideal attraction for a cat.

 

Thanks, Gordon

Damo

[Rasputin]

Hi

I have never had this happen and I have left unfinished posts for hours if not days. I do have my sign in setting for Forever as I can never remember my passwords . I did get an Internal Server Error message a few hours ago when I did a search of this site ? It only lasted 10 or so minutes though

Rasputin "The Mad Monk"

[Wolf Knight]

I got the internal server error too...

[playmofire]

Me too, but I refreshed the page with my reply on and resent it - and found I'd posted the same reply twice!   

[flatcat]

I had this blip at the exact same time as you guys, because when I finally got back on, I noticed that all the smileys went a bit funny, and Gordon had 2 identical posts

Damo

[bonniebeth]

I've had the internal servor error several times in the past couple of days, especially if i leave the website up while i go do something else and try to come back to it.