Posts by TonyMurphy

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory

The human race is doing a lot of dumb things these days, but occasionally. for briefest of instants, it shines bright with ingenuity, skill and brilliance,

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

The good old days

I loved playing this on my Acorn Electron, yes I was one of the few with strange computer! I did manage to persuade my parents to but me a ZX Spectrum though as the Electron always felt education biased and I wanted games games games - LOL

Lufthansa bans Apple AirTags on checked bags

Who's gonna look for them

Who's going to be checking for them? It won't be the security check-in as they are (mostly) unaware of the airline/flight you are taking, they just scan your baggage and you, then onwards you go.

Unless Lufthansa have a team sweeping for Bluetooth emissions from checked luggage then your little air-tag will more than likely continue un-molested.

I would have thought, also, that the baggage guys do not have authority to open luggage, that will be back on the security team?

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

If you liked that feeling of lone spaceship doing whatever you want...Eve Online may be worth checking out.

Only been playing if for 15 years now!

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

Has to be EVIL CORP

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Probably got me the job I'm in now

I remember the day my dad returned home with that polystyrene box in the carboard sleeve with the ZX81 on it. I was hooked from the first few hours and 40 years later I'm working with computers, albeit mostly in Mr Bezos's world now.

The hours-on-end typing in listings from books and magazines, (who remembers the good old Usborne computer programming books?) only for the wind to blow in the wrong direction and the ram pack wobbled and pfft it all disappeared. It was frustrating at the time but I wouldn't change any of the experiences and lessons it taught me.

I'll be raising a glass high in memory of Uncle Clive, without who I really don't think I'd be in this job, certainly not live in this house, and probably woudn't have met my wife.

RIP Clive