Posts by Nigel Barrett

Star Trek: The original computer game

Re: The good old days of type-in listings...

Why did nearly all magazine listings contain fatal errors in them? I remember many hours of fun trying to re-invent a missing line of code; "Your Computer" springs to mind as the worst offender. I even sent a short listing in myself once, got it published and, yes they managed to type it in wrong.

Johnson: ID cards will pay for themselves

paying for itself

The only way I'll have one of those is if it pays for itself - cause I won't.

PC World punts Windows 7 £100 trade-in promotion

You won't get £100 for junk

Just read their promotion and it talks about them valuing your old laptop and then giving you "up to" £100. So I guess my Toshiba 166MHz laptop will get me about 10p.

Wireless browsers shut out of the Olympics

Roaming?

The company which I work for has an internet presence which surfaces either in Germany or the US, depending on which server the autoproxy randomly assigns. So I can't see video at the BBC either. Interestingly I can see some video at sky news.

I notice that most US web sites with video are now asking for a zip code and a tick-box confirmation that the user is in the US.

Remembering the Commodore SX-64

SX-64

That's not a computer, it's an oscilliscope!