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Warning – probable bad language ahead!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This website is a replacement for my old computer consultancy website. As they say in the movies, “I’m getting too old for this shit!”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I first met a computer in university. It was an ICL<\/a> 4\/50 computer, it looked like a row of “tallboys” (wardrobes), took up the space of a 40′ shipping container, and was programmed using information (programs and data) on punched cards. We submitted our jobs by placing our bundles of punched cards in a tray on the data centre desk, and a couple of hours later, the job would be returned, wrapped in lineprinter paper.<\/p>\r\n

Of then this would consist of “Job failed, syntax error on line xx” or similar. Retype the card, place it in the deck, and resubmit…<\/p>\r\n

It was fun! It was called the cafeteria service for a reason! I think that the 4\/50 also supported up to four (4!) interactive users on “Teletype” machines. These were a keyboard with a roll of paper where what we typed and what the computer responded showed.<\/p>\r\n

A few years after that, the BBC introduced the BBC Micro<\/a>, along with a series of late night programming programmes, that taught coding. In just a few years things had progressed so that you could buy a “Beeb”for just \u00a3400. It had a real keyboard, plugged into your TV to display text and graphics, and allowed you to save programs to a music cassette tape to be loaded again later. You could even “download” programs from the TV by using a microphone to your cassette recorder.<\/p>\r\n

You lot have been spoiled.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Nowadays, software (and many other things in modern life) are getting worse. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So, this website is going to be the rants of a Grumpy Old Bastard!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You just can’t wait, can you?<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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