Peter Whisker 🇪🇺🇮🇪 aul segotia @peterwhisker@qoto.org

@markmoxon I spent months working in CAR at BBC TV Centre upgrading the systems overnight. It was when Torville and Dean were skating in the Winter Olympics so I guess 1984? The presentation guys worked late with their feet on the desk and a bottle of wine iicr.

@markmoxon I worked at Logica which had developed the system with the BBC Research Dept at Kingswood Warren and Aston and VG who made the keyboard terminals for the editors. I installed the systems at Chicago (WLS) and Cincinnati (WKRC) and the ORF teletext subtitling in Vienna. It was a great project!

@bbcmicrobot The instance I use has a 65536 character toot size limit!

@markmoxon I worked on the BBC Teletext systems including the upgrade from 2 VITS lines to 4 back in the 1980s. A colleague designed a new encoder board which was a great improvement. It connected to a #pdp11 DR-11W parallel interface. The software was written in RTL/2 and MACRO-11 under #RSX11M on a PDP-11/34

At St Clement Danes in #London yesterday. Ringing with the Guild of #Medical Ringers . A really lovely ring of ten bells.

#RAF

How do you like the graffiti on the walls of the ringing chamber of St Vedast, Foster Lane in London? Most of it dates from the 1700s. Vedast was a Frankish Bishop of Arras in the 6th Century.

#Vedast #Vaast #Foster #Gaston

Outside the bell tower door at St Magnus the Martyr church in #London is this big chunk of Roman wharf timber dating back to 75 AD which they found in 1931. Amazing thing!

@PaulDunphyEsquire and in Orkney they have peedie pufflings

Loved this picture on the front of #Chertsey Museum's Annual report. It was drawn by James Parsons for a "#Literary Links" exhibition held there recently. The rhyme was written by Edward #Lear. I never knew there was so much fascinating #archaeology in the subsoil

@lizlyricfm you've got the early Saturday morning stand-in for Evonne I see

@lizlyricfm Liked your "contact me on Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon" this morning. I listen to Lyric whilst I work from home each day

@iainmacl sounds like Brexit too.

@JenniferMorency it's like a great big game of Jenga. When that final critical piece goes it all comes tumbling town.