Re: Just when you think UK politics can't get any weirder or messier.
Pneumatic tubes still exist. I remember them, and also "real" cash registers - some of which, especially in Germany, were works of art. The one at Beamish is particularly impressive.
It's interesting that as the technology gets more impressive, the outward shell gets more boring. Mobile phones are rapidly approaching TMA-1 when not working, the future of car dashboards also seems to be glass slabs. And cash registers are being replaced by almost featureless little boxes as even the mobile terminal with buttons is being downsized.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
