nickt

Or about 3 double-decker buses for the length of 171 footy pitches.

Box. Amateur. Talk to me when you have a filing cabinet full of cables with bags labelled “SCSI”, “IEE-488 (Commodore)” and “DIN”.

At least my past self was good enough to bag and label.

In screen savers, scroll to the bottom - and click on the easy to miss "Show All" on the right side. You should see Afterglow in the expanded list.

The should give a one year window and pop round on some random afternoon. Bet they’d look a bit more like a space where work gets done then.

At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton and Darlington clearly operated a similar model of moving goods and passengers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa...

So I’d argue that they were moving first!

You should probably get a cheap IoT camera to keep an eye on that printer!

In the UK (and a few other places) it’s “Mothering Sunday”, the day you honour the church where you were baptised, or your mother church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday

I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!

I’m optimistic too, but I can’t help wonder if the post scarcity world, like the future, won’t be evenly distributed.

I was around in the 80’s in the UK and this was a real thing:

https://newsthump.com/2026/01/28/uk-on-verge-of-return-to-he...

The ZX81 had that too, at least the UK ones did.

The keyboard itself, er, takes some getting used to. But they are a little cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81...

Good job the Brits are asleep as they’d be cracking up at these comments.

Not sure if you’re serious but reeks of “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially”

Like DCC (1992)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette