Four decades ago or so, my dad had a digger working in a car showroom Nottingham way on. The 3CX was brand new, on its first job. Thieves broke into the showroom overnight, ignored all the expensive … (View Post)

A headline I did not expect to see: "Bargain Hunt expert charged with terror offences" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4180np8do (View Post)

Nah, a surveyor. He'd erect his tripod and dangle his plumb bobs, before taking his staff to points of interest. (View Post)

Complexity. Modern computers are orders of magnitude more complex than ones from twenty years ago, let alone forty. The BBC B that was operating a machine in a lab somewhere after thirty years of wor… (View Post)

Chips have moved to progressively smaller transistor sizes, allowing many more transistors to be on a chip. This allows more stuff on the chip that improves speed. In ye olden days that was things li… (View Post)