more renewable troubles. Pass me the extension cable..or an angle grinder?

[Steve Firth]

Scargill could supply the gas. If he croaks then there's Bob "Windbag" Crowe to take over.

[polygonum]

Well they did have a calculator. Think I saw one once...

[Max Quad]

Was it the Sinclair one? A mate had one at school. All it was used for was typing 0553 (and then turning the thing upside down), 7175, and a few other vaguely amusing things. Those were the days!

[harryagain]

Bit here on the topic.

[harryagain]

ESSO OIL and SHELL OIL

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 09 August 2013 07:15 harryagain wrote in uk.d-i-y:

80085

[The Other Mike]

GEAR OIL AXLE OIL DAMPER OIL CRUDE OIL OLIVE OIL BABY OIL 3-IN-1-OIL

[John Rumm]

and 55378008

[whisky-dave]

I heard a roumour that our CS department brought one of teh fists and expensive hex calculators in the mid to late 70s but it got stolen. It was said that a someone in a local pub tried to sell it and when demostarting it found it didn;t work, as examples like 10 + 10 = 14 so they throw it away.

Not sure how true it was but I heard it from a number of people that worked there at that time.....

[Dave Liquorice]

Surprised it wasn't reverse polish notation as well.

[Tim Watts]

On Saturday 10 August 2013 21:35 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

When PCs were just starting to get around, someone nicked a load of dumb terminals from my uni - it was presumed they were thought to be "PCs".

[Huge]

Criminals are no brighter now - hence the morons who steal fibre optic cable and try and sell it for scrap.

[John Rumm]

Shortly before I started at mine, someone drove into the campus, and reversed a van up to the double doors at the end of a corridor, then proceeded to unload a complete labs worth of XT clone computers into the back of it. They looked like they were supposed to be doing it, so no one questioned them!