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It’s nothing like that, not to give the game away its not what she was doing but what she was wearing...
Nursewhen its nothing I would put on YouTube for public view, just a bit of a laugh in these forums. 
Luckily I was never forced to learn COBOL
Ahhhh you missed out there Tim! I too did a "proper" Computing degree - mine was called Computing For Industry so we did all kinds of cool stuff like 68000 Assembler language, CNC machinery and real time systems... but we also had to learn Pascal and COBOL. And I thought COBOL was brilliant - absolutely perfectly designed for batch processing - i.e. take this file, read a line, interpret a line, spit out a result into another file - and once you get your head around that, it's just an absolute joy. We only did it for a term but I loved it. I found it to be a great grounding for doing file processing with PERL on Unix later in life.
Sorry, reminiscing about archaic computer systems is something I absolutely love.... sometimes I wish I'd been born 20 years earlier so I could have seen the early days of it all.... 
I often wish I'd been borm 20 earlier for classic computing stuff, classic Roack/Metal, classic books, classic everything. There isn't much classic anything now is there?
Nursewhen its nothing I would put on YouTube for public view, just a bit of a laugh in these forums
maybe you should have just gone with a phone photo (not that I could even do that, I have no bells of whistles on my mobile)
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I have a photo but the video is the better one
And I thought COBOL was brilliant - absolutely perfectly designed for batch processing - i.e. take this file, read a line, interpret a line, spit out a result into another file - and once you get your head around that, it's just an absolute joy. We only did it for a term but I loved it. I found it to be a great grounding for doing file processing with PERL on Unix later in life.Sorry, reminiscing about archaic computer systems is something I absolutely love.
OY you lot! Less of the archaic! I still use COBOL! (Though admittedly it's mainly Pro*COBOL now). The big utilities have these behemoth COBOL systems which work just fine. They just slap a pretty front end on the top, but it's still the old system underneath.
My ex used to punch cards, so archaic really isn't very long ago.
We're living in a society of grossly accelerated redundancy. Sometimes I really wish it would all slow down and let us appreciate what we've got instead of always looking for what's coming next.
No wonder Steampunk is getting such a following!
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Yeah, people should enjoy what was/is good & not always want more. I personally love olde pubs, with Real Ales & Malt Whiskys. Sadly there aren't all that many of them about now, though Derby still has a fair few...
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JD - not sure about which phone etc you have, but if you can get the file off the phone you can go from anything as simple as emailing it around, asking people with web-space to bung it up, or slinging it onto generic file/video sharing site of your choice, though perhaps not the latter given it's unsuitability for video.
If it's just a case of loading it up into webspace, I'd be happy to host it.
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