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Posted by Lester Caine on January 8, 2008, 5:22 am
Please log in for more thread options jontom_1uk@hotmail.com wrote:
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>> Guildford had an ICL1900 with 16kb words of core store - 16bit I think so
>> switching back to 8 bit processors was another backwards step.
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>> ( So we are nearly back to stone tables Peter :) )
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>> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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> Now you have done it Lester; I remember well the meetings we had to
> tell us that the ICL1900 we were installing was "state of the art" and
> would make life so much simpler. Then the difficult meetings to tell
> the SIX girls who worked out the wages and bonus that four of them
> would need to go. A year later the six were indeed reduced to four but
> we had another TWENTY TWO employed just to feed and look after the
> bl**dy thing plus a new £200K building. The four girls all got better
> paid but much easier jobs - progress indeed. The best "money spinner"
> that we could have wished for. The thing never ran our programme
> scheduling that had to go to another site with an even more powerful
> (64kb and much more expensive) machine, a trip that provided an "all
> nighter" that was very lucrative indeed. DAHIK
It took me some time to get Sheila to do the accounts ON a computer - she
still claims it would be quicker with paper books although we do save a few
pounds. I've not updated Sage for 'ahem' years. I just dare not move her
machine off W2k :)
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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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