The switchon of Chertsey 's #Christmas lights on Friday including a visit by a highly illuminated #Santa Claus and #sleigh.
@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
Today I finished converting Elite to use sixels. As a result, Teletext Elite now does everything that the original does, just in teletext.
I’ve got to tie up some loose ends, but I hope to release it next weekend. Watch this space!
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 😄
Dublin's Turkish Baths which stood on Lincoln Place. Built in 1860, the building was demolished in 1970.
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 😂
Mastodonners.. This is Patch, the studio cat.
Patch loves nothing more than lying amidst the patch cables of a nice warm synth, or maybe stretching out across a vintage keyboard.
Despite appearances, Patch is 100% ruthless (Think Cato/Clouseau but with more scratchy violence)
The studio is hers, obvs, she just lets me use it, if I behave myself and turn on all the nice warm boxes.
Patch prefers ambient & cool jazz. Nothing too loud.
@ajroach42 it's fantastic that such a gem as #mastodon was just waiting in the wings ready to go when #twitter imploded.
😞 I just realized that Elon musk unban Andrew Tate... 🤦🏾♂️ That's one of the worst decisions....Twitter is slightly becoming more and more toxic with this kind of decisions. #riptwitter.
@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.
[Retired] Software Technical Architect with 43+ years industry experience now in Surrey, UK. Trinity College Dublin engineer - BA BAI. CEng MIET. Irish/British/French descent. A Christian and involved with a local church and also do bellringing 🔔 . Interested in lots of things. He/Him/Sir/Boss/whatsyerface. #FBPE 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷 #RejoinEU
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