There are a lot of clues about someone’s age given by their first memory of a computer. 😀 (View Post)

If you can use log tables, or even worse a slide rule, that really dates you. (View Post)

Up until five years ago we still had a BBC B computer with 128K in one of the labs which we used with a lightgate. It was older than the then head of Physics... (View Post)

In lessons on SI prefixes I bore pupils sometimes with the tale of how I spent more on a 20Mb hard drive in1989 than a 2Tb drive costs today. I don’t get bogged down with the difference between 10^3 … (View Post)

Moore’s Law would suggest that computers are now four times as powerful as they were four years ago. You are probably reading this on a computer more powerful than the eighties vintage Cray supercomp… (View Post)