Written on the 15th March 2025.

I’m writing this on a black and yellow screen that is 38 years old, and I’m really enjoying it.

When I was a student I heard word from a friend that a local company were getting rid of their old minicomputer system.

The minicomputer was about the size of a large fridge and connected to a bunch of screens, called “terminals”. These terminals aren’t any use on their own; they need to talk to a separate computer. This was usually in an air conditioned “machine hall” – similar to the cloud datacentres of today.

The company had an office near t