Re: A word to chill those who lived through the 80s (and 70s)
"Mysteriously, the 3,000 change requests a year, each year (that's over 10 a day every day) from the MoD never get mentioned."
We should not forget the fact Generally Evil Company, Go Easy Corp GEC was known as the home of the 9-to-5 Engineer.at the time due to management viewing them as vermin to be trapped or killed.
Or their insistence on using a GEC mini computer for the main functions (rather past its sell by date in cycle time and memory) or it's novel use of the fuel as a coolant.
But at least it never got into service.
When the MoD spent a shedload of cash on the Nimrod upgrade in the early 2000 it did.
