IT Essentials: Climbing frames to mainframes

50 years and going strong

Tom Allen
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Let's be honest, this looks fun no matter your age
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Let's be honest, this looks fun no matter your age

A trip down memory lane over the Easter weekend turned into reflections on technological progress.

I went back to my childhood home in Oxfordshire over Easter, and spent Saturday walking around my old haunts with my wife. Obviously plenty has changed, but I was surprised to see how many of th...

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