I just had to use that quote. I came across this page from the BCS looking at computer adverts from the 1960s.
11 classic computing adverts from the 1960s | BCS
My highlights were the IBM disk pack, the computer terminal we used at college had this style of storage at the end of the ’70s and the decimalisation problem programmers had to face. My pocket money also had to change that day.
For those of you who are too young to know what Decimal Day – Monday 15 February 1971 – was here is the Wikipedia article:
IT and Vacuum Cleaners
One of the adverts is for the British Vacuum Cleaner & Engineering Company, to keep your valuable computer rooms free of that killer dust. One of our reoccurring issues, from Day 1 of opening the company has been someone unplugging a bit of kit to plug in a vacuum cleaner or as we dealt with last week, splitting a network in half, because they needed to charge their phone. Power issues are something our team deals with all the time.
Have a good weekend
Clive
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
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