So it is coming round to the Christmas holiday season so that means I get another opportunity to bring you my Geek’s Christmas Present List. If you have a geek in your life these suggestions hopefully will give you some ideas what to get them for their stockings… If you are a geek then forward […]
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Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed
It was announced yesterday that the inventor and computer pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair died at his home in London after a long illness. Although according to his daughter he was still inventing last week. Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 – BBC News If you follow the link to the article above you
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Recently our blogs have been focusing on showcasing the great services we supply at Octagon and have bundled into our 365R services – see this web site Octagon’s 365R if you want to read more about that. I have a memo here that says I should be writing about anti-virus software, but sometimes being the boss has
Back in December 2020 I wrote a blog where I asked “Where is my flying car” and then a few days later I wrote a sequel as there was an announcement of a flying car for sale. Here are the links to those articles: Where’s my flying car? – Octagon Technology Where’s my flying car? The Sequel – Octagon
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I love technology – although I still do not have a flying car (see here and here) but things are getting closer – US airline set to buy flying electric taxis for airport runs – BBC News. These things aside, we all own a range of gadgets from smart speakers, through laptops to the ever-present
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Have you read “Where’s my flying car?” part 1? If not you should. I was 10 in 1971 – decimalisation came in that year – and this was on the television: 1971: Tomorrow’s World: Cassette Navigation – YouTube (You should really take four minutes and thirty-four seconds to watch this video – speed it up if you are short of
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Who watched the Jetsons? If you say yes to that question then we are of a similar age or you are a real geek. If you say “no” then google it – and that simple statement “google it” is what this blog is about – technology today. No one told me I’d have Google in
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