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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I forget the exact details
But mostly antiques. Large, noisy, ancient behemoths.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:31, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Aren't they replacing them soon
with a load of big, black IBM-built monoliths?
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:36, Reply)
They might well be
I'll ask him next time I see him, he only comes up when his missus (a friend of mine from way way back) comes up to see us.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I do know a few people there myself
Though they're more involved with the measurement side than the mahoosive computer models. Last time I was down that way they showed me the server room and told me about the sexy new computers they were going to install. Though they might have had those confiscated after the newspapers got into a massive frumpy flounce because they got the prediction for last summer a bit wrong.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:44, Reply)
I meant the person
I knew that this confusion (or faux-confusion) would happen
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:36, Reply)
He's awesome
Geeky, as the best of us are, and likes to tease his girlfriend something chronic. This is good because it used to be my job, back in school. I also fancied her back then, but that's by-the-by.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:39, Reply)
not from round here then I take it.
trying to think if I know anyone who works there
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:54, Reply)
Can't remember where he's from originally
He met my friend 'M' at uni in Exeter, they hooked up and have been happily together ever since.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:56, Reply)
" I also fancied her back then, but that's by-the-by."
Is it, though? Is it really by-the-by? true feelings? I only ask because I've watched a lot of Murder She Wrote and have come to know the dangers of supressing your true feelings.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:10, Reply)
I would've got away with it
If it wasn't for you, meddlin' Cave Duck.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:13, Reply)

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