They used to say to me at work, "Don't you talk posh", and that I was a walking or had I swallowed a dictionary. The old man is a crossword fanatic. My grump, I was awake at 4.30, when he got up, (he retired last week alarm went off at 5) I got up did the washing (economy 7) it was grey and nasty,spitting with rain, and a red sunrise, I put the clothes in the Tumble dryer, (which I hate for lots of reasons) and its sunny,blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and a breeze that would have dried the blasted washing. Had plenty ,grandkids 4 days this weeks instead of usual 3 (thats not a grump) back to school on Monday
"Spec" as in the abbreviation of specification was always pronounced "Spek" when I worked in the building industry and then in IT. I started work as a Quantity Surveyor in 1967 so it's nothing new.Â
Really annoyed because the stupid XR protestors have stopped delivery of today's national newspapers. We've just walked nearly two miles to try to get one and we've paid in advance!
...how odd .. when I left school in '72, I went to be a quantity surveyor for the local council in Brighton, then a more 'glamorous' (?)/interesting job in computers came up - and went into that instead.
First machine I worked on was a Honeywell-Bull GE-115 with 16k of memory, 4 tape drives, card reader (hand punching cards was fun - especially correcting mistakes by putting the chads back in!), tape reader and printer. The whole lot took an air conditioned room about 20ftx20ft. More power in the chip in my daughter's Fit Bit today. Writing 'stuff' to run in 16k was amusing...
It is not acceptable to park completely blocking someones drive, and dissappear for 20 minutes. I certainly wouldnt do it, but then I wouldnt park across someones drive, nor would any of my relatives or friends. I was going shopping I could have been going to work. If you have someone visiting you, do you not have a responsibility for their behavior. They could have parked outside the neighbours drive, that would have been logical.
...how odd .. when I left school in '72, I went to be a quantity surveyor for the local council in Brighton, then a more 'glamorous' (?)/interesting job in computers came up - and went into that instead.
First machine I worked on was a Honeywell-Bull GE-115 with 16k of memory, 4 tape drives, card reader (hand punching cards was fun - especially correcting mistakes by putting the chads back in!), tape reader and printer. The whole lot took an air conditioned room about 20ftx20ft. More power in the chip in my daughter's Fit Bit today. Writing 'stuff' to run in 16k was amusing...
Computers have moved on a bit haven't they. I started working in IT in 74, on a mainframe computer with 64k memory. That in a cabinet about 6 feet long, 5 feet high and 3 feet deep! Computer room was about 60' x 30' to accommodate the tape drives, new disk drives of 8 and 64 mb capacity and you needed to be a weightlifter to swap them.
Software had to be written carefully due to limitations but I doubt most people would actually need any more computing power if everything wasn't so bloated. I moved on to PC support in the early 90s and then entire installation of Windows 3.1 needed just 3 1.44mb capacity floppy disks. Times change.
...does make you wonder about the computing power required for a moon shot... but I'm not starting any conspiracy theory....
In the early 80's I was working on a mainframe for a building society with a set of the multi-platter (80MB? - like above - the protective plastic cover came off when the disk was screwed into the drive.The drives were quite large - 2ft(?) across, 18 inches (?) high - and quite heavy) removable disk packs that fitted in top loading 'washing machine' type disk drives. The disk packs had to be constantly changed to access the various 'files' - but one of the disk drives developed a fault and didn't spin down the disks when the top was opened and also allowed the operator to screw on the protective cover and remove the still spinning discs...just like a gyroscope... Humorous at the time, but just lucky that no one got hurt...
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