Posts by John

2 posts • joined Wednesday 11th June 2008 08:29 GMT

Posted in Profs design AK47-locating 'smart dust' helmets

Posted Tuesday 31st March 2009 09:45 GMT

John

What if...

the GI in his usual wisdom trades this technology for something he really wants, it happens it the Gulf, where he really wants that beret from the brit so much he's prepared to give away his satnav. If he trades it with an enemy without realising, it would be very easy for them to find and kill the trigger happy GIs.

Mine's with Paris since they both have the sane IQ

Posted in RM boss says school's out forever

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 08:58 GMT

John

RM

When I started at my local college, they had RM Nimbus machines in the computer room and library. It turned out that they signed a 10 year contract with RM to supply them with computers and RM did just that, they gave them the Nimbus for 10 years!

The Nimbus had a hidden feature in regards to colour, if you knew how to exploit it you could get 16 colours on the CGA monitor at any one time. This is something not even Microsoft could work out.

I actually visited RM's Oxford HQ to get a copy of Windows 3.0 for the college at one point, since they had Windows 2.0.

You would have thought the college learnt its lesson but signed a 10 year contract with Western Systems for their next computer suite (the company mysteriously went bust shortly after)