Malmesbury

Quite a number of those I work with, who live out in the sticks, have had an electric car for years as the "station car". Charge at home, just used for backward and forward to the rail stat… (View Post)

backups that don't backup are useless. So, you generally have a battery to give you time to fire up the backup generators. If they exist. The batteries act as a UPS - so you shouldn't even get a flic… (View Post)

LOL A proper system would have a big pile of batteries, stabilising the Heathrow local grid. So if a source of external power goes down. you don't even see a flicker. When the batteries start getting… (View Post)

It's a hall full of clerks, each one with an IBM tabulation machine. Each clerk performs one function and passes it to the next. The traditional job title for the clerks is "Computers" (View Post)

Ha, yes A chap I know bought a huge CNC mill (second hand, but was high 4 figures) - he was rightly terrified of the thing. He didn't buy a bench top hand mill first and learn properly. So it sat the… (View Post)