8 Feb
2008
8 Feb
'08
4:27 a.m.
Spotted that one last night as well, was hoping to get a front view but no
luck, didn't see any cables out the back or labels either, I thought it
might have been the chiklet version, but no substantive reason for this.
Don't believe the police used them, I thought they had dumb terminals into a
local mainframe.
Quite a few in private industry, we had one for code development, stock
control and accounts for a few years.
It became unreliable untill we figured out it was the ic sockets and
replaced them all, never failed once after that.
Mike.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ade Vickers" <javickers at solutionengineers.com>
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:25 PM
Subject: [personal] TV Spot: CBM Pet
Spotted a CBM Pet (unknown model - I wasn't
watching closely enough) on
the
new BBC TV series "Ashes to Ashes" (sequel to Life on Mars).
Did the British police force use CBMs in the '80s, then? I'd have thought
they'd have gone straight in with terminals attached to a mainframe or
mini?
Cheers,
Ade.