Old stuff I still knowOur Ginger Fuhrer says that he could still code up a simple game idea in Amstrad Basic, while I'm your man if you ever need to rebuild the suspension on an Austin Allegro (1750 Equipe version). This stuff doesn't leave your mind - tell us about obsolete talents you still have.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:04)
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ASCII codesYou know, where you hold ALT and type a code on the numeric keypad to produce any character in the current set - including those which do not appear on your keyboard.
I know most of them off by heart. For example, é is ALT+0233; ü is 0252; ö = 0246; ½ = 0189.
I know these so well because in the mid '90s, I wrote a searchable Eurovision database program whereupon I had to manually enter all the details of all Eurovision songs from 1956 (first Contest) to the present, including such things as song title, artist, lyricist, composer and conductor. Of course with such an international array of titles and names, non-English characters were common.
I even remember the useless ones like ÿ - but only because it's the last one in the sequence.
Such things as ½ are still useful today.
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