Incommunicado by DaTa (From Kidderminster Shuttle)

Incommunicado by DaTa

2:37pm Saturday 23rd May 2009

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I have been without the Internet for about three weeks so you have had a rest from my ramblings. What I have learned is just how much we now take for granted. When I were a lad we had the third car in the street, the third family to get a telephone (party line of course) and about the third or fourth to have a TV installed (for the Coronation, what else?). I remember the widespread use of Horse-drawn local deliveries (quick lad go get the shovel and spread that round your Ma’s roses).

We agonised over whether Mr Khrushchev’s Missiles would turn back and stood sadly by, as the news came through that Kennedy had been shot.

I bought a reel to reel tape recorder about a month before cassettes came out but I held off buying a Sinclair calculator at £23 for about 6 months and was chuffed when the price settled down to £8. Unfortunately I did buy Betamax, (narrowly escaping System 2000).

I have no interest in plugging myself into an I-pod, preferring to read.

I never bothered with a mobile phone for ages but would be lost without one nowadays.

Having been involved with the move to new premises of the company I work for I have not given much thought to Blogging but to be sans e-mail has been an eye opener.

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