Posts by Andy 12

Britain’s forgotten first home computer pioneer: John Miller-Kirkpatrick

Re: affordable???

I was on £49 per month as a trainee working for NCR in their Birmingham Computer suites. All valves and ferrite rings in them days.

BBC's 3D blunder BLASTED OUR BRAINS – Doctor Who fans

Re: RE: The lack of ads on the Beeb is still remarkably compelling

for me it is not the self promotion / ads between programmes, it is the stopping of a programme in mid flow in order to display 5 minutes of sdvertising, that is what I cannot stand. I personally believe that TV advertising has contributed to the inability for people to concentrate for more than 10 minutes or so at a time.

Re: "Tax" - really?

I love the fact that there is no adverts on the BBC and happily pay the licence fee - much much cheaper than sky which has loads of adverts as well as the monthly subscription cost. For programmes on the non BBC channels I either record them and then watch later FWDing through the ads, or I buy the BD boxsets of the series. COmmercial radio, I don't listen to, I listen to BBC radio. I can't help it, I simply hate advertisments.

REJOICE! Windows 7 users can get IE11 ... soon they'll have NO choice

Crikey do people still use the user data mining Google Chrome (worse than the NSA) ? IE has been unusable for years. FF or Safari all the way for me :-)

While the BBC drools over Twitter, look what UK's up to: Hospital superbug breakthrough

Now that is a programme I would watch ! SCD-JDE

That time when an NSA bloke's son borked the ENTIRE INTERNET...

ah, yes, The Shockwave Rider by Brunner, an excellent early treaty on the subject. I of course cannot confirm or deny having anything to do with a small programme on the BBC that reformatted all attached disk drives if anyone tried to copy my software. There were not that many disk users in them days, but the code did attach itself to every file the potential pirate then created and sent to friends...... :-)