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I'm now in my sixties ...started my working life in the Aircraft Industry, then Electronics then Oil/Gas/Energy.... now I remember working for "Ultra Electronics" I was about 19 at the time working as an Electronics Technician .
An Engineer came up to me and carefully handed me an "Integrated Circuit" and said ...be careful with this it cost £70 (average mans working wage at that time was about £ 20 per week) ... it's got 5 transistors in it !
I bought an 8 Gig USB stick the other day ...out of interest I googled it just to see how many transistors it contained.
Answer ...billions and I think I paid just a couple of quid for it - is that progress or what !
Incredible.
An Engineer came up to me and carefully handed me an "Integrated Circuit" and said ...be careful with this it cost £70 (average mans working wage at that time was about £ 20 per week) ... it's got 5 transistors in it !
I bought an 8 Gig USB stick the other day ...out of interest I googled it just to see how many transistors it contained.
Answer ...billions and I think I paid just a couple of quid for it - is that progress or what !
Incredible.
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Akin to mobile phones, from snake on the old Nokias to being able to watch Sky tv and HD porn these days.
Talking of mobile phones ...I remember and it doesn't seem that long ago when the first mobile phones were perched on top of a Car Battery !
and yet, when you want to find a public toilet ...
that's progress?
that's progress?
I thought you could just p!ss in shop doorways these days. Everyone does it, don't they??
I thought you could just p!ss in shop doorways these days. Everyone does it, don't they??
Or the Lift at the local Shopping Centre.
Or the Lift at the local Shopping Centre.
"and yet, when you want to find a public toilet"
Shut down cos of all the "cottaging" that went on.
Shut down cos of all the "cottaging" that went on.
Which division of Ultra Rockinron?
I do a lot of business with them.
I do a lot of business with them.
Rockiron
That's ok if you're in town, but if you're out in the country you're fooked - no shop doorways for miles.
Incidentally, a couple of days ago I was in Wales and called at a little village on my way out of Wales (back home) and stopped at local WC. Went to go in and automatic door wanted 20p to enter. I saved 20p.
That's ok if you're in town, but if you're out in the country you're fooked - no shop doorways for miles.
Incidentally, a couple of days ago I was in Wales and called at a little village on my way out of Wales (back home) and stopped at local WC. Went to go in and automatic door wanted 20p to enter. I saved 20p.
There's inflation for you!
To spend a penny you've now got to spend 20 pennies
....or 30 pennies at Marylebone Station, the chiselling tw@tters!
To spend a penny you've now got to spend 20 pennies
....or 30 pennies at Marylebone Station, the chiselling tw@tters!
"Which division of Ultra Rockinron"
It was Ultra Electronics in Park Roayal Road London...but I'm going back to about 1966 !
It was Ultra Electronics in Park Roayal Road London...but I'm going back to about 1966 !
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