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**VtLe67WR** · 01-07-2009, 01:41 PM

When I was a lad we didnt have computers and internet. I actually worked on the first computer using CAD software at Whessoe in Darlington where CAD was invented. It was a Honeywell machine and we used green on black displays for pipework for oilrigs. (useless p.c. info you didn't need to know...chapter 3)

I heard about kendo and later iai from my buddy at karate class, which was also a judo class, and a jiujitsu class...(anything which involved hitting somebody really

) How could we resist, hitting somebody with a stick! When I turned up, so did everyone else from the 'karate' club. My buddy packed in, I kept going...

01-07-2009, 01:41 PM	#30
VtLe67WR Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	When I was a lad we didnt have computers and internet. I actually worked on the first computer using CAD software at Whessoe in Darlington where CAD was invented. It was a Honeywell machine and we used green on black displays for pipework for oilrigs. (useless p.c. info you didn't need to know...chapter 3) I heard about kendo and later iai from my buddy at karate class, which was also a judo class, and a jiujitsu class...(anything which involved hitting somebody really) How could we resist, hitting somebody with a stick! When I turned up, so did everyone else from the 'karate' club. My buddy packed in, I kept going...
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