It asked me about who qualified for free prescriptions and offered me four choices. The correct answer, in Wales, is everybody but this is clearly an English citizenship test only.
My own experience, sadly now lengthy, seems to imply an inversely proportional relationship between need and specification. Where there is a real urgency for a solution then government procurement is prepared to listen to new ideas but in the absence of that need then the relationship is simply one where the buyer tells the supplier what the solution is to be and no new thinking is welcome.
I used to have a Torch. CP/M with a BBC hidden inside it and switchable. I even had a 20mb HD as well as 2 5.25 floppies. After that I had a Torch XXX Unix box which was wonderful, even the GUI. Shame there was no software to run on it.
It was a complete fake - the proof being that they turned off the Moon (Lunar eclipse - a likely story) - so that there wouldn't be enough light to see that nothing happened.
I started with a Northstar and then moved onto a Superbrain - with *two* floppy drives (and an unfortunate experience with a Gemini S100 machine).
We laughed scornfully at Pet owners as we spent hours trying to work out the cabling for RS232 dot-matrix printers. No games for us (except Zork of course), we were running social security calculations written in Z80 Cobol.
Register
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A genuine opportunity
It's not to be rural anyway. I trotted in to register and found it said:
"Sorry but your exchange is not eligible to win The Race to Infinity as it has fewer than 1000 premises.
We still want you to get involved so please go to 'VOTE NOW' to express your interest.
If 75% of your exchange registers, BT will engage with your community to see what we can do in your area."
So I went to the voting page and, after providing my compulsory marketing information for them to lose, got:
"The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error."
UK citizenship test
Bizzarre indeed... and plain wrong as well.
It asked me about who qualified for free prescriptions and offered me four choices. The correct answer, in Wales, is everybody but this is clearly an English citizenship test only.
Mobile?
Please, please please don't assume that mobile is synonomous with connected. There's a lot of mobile standalone around too.
Bigger and better
I was in Shenzhen yesterday and was offered an Android 2.1 10" screen with HDMI etc. iPed.
I was tempted but negotiations broke down
Quis custodiet... ?
My own experience, sadly now lengthy, seems to imply an inversely proportional relationship between need and specification. Where there is a real urgency for a solution then government procurement is prepared to listen to new ideas but in the absence of that need then the relationship is simply one where the buyer tells the supplier what the solution is to be and no new thinking is welcome.
This does not lead to innovation.
19c Snipers
Wasn't it 'chosen man' in the Napoleonic Army?
Bigger and Better
I used to have a Torch. CP/M with a BBC hidden inside it and switchable. I even had a 20mb HD as well as 2 5.25 floppies. After that I had a Torch XXX Unix box which was wonderful, even the GUI. Shame there was no software to run on it.
The real story
It was a complete fake - the proof being that they turned off the Moon (Lunar eclipse - a likely story) - so that there wouldn't be enough light to see that nothing happened.
Menus
I wouldn't eat that - it would be a moose-steak.
Real computers
I started with a Northstar and then moved onto a Superbrain - with *two* floppy drives (and an unfortunate experience with a Gemini S100 machine).
We laughed scornfully at Pet owners as we spent hours trying to work out the cabling for RS232 dot-matrix printers. No games for us (except Zork of course), we were running social security calculations written in Z80 Cobol.
Bigger show
Go to the permanent exhibition in Cardiff, It has buttons to press!