Secret nuclear bunker, how the information is presented.

[ericmark]

As a birthday treat, I was taken to a secret nuclear bunker, not very secret with all the signs, but what I saw was what I had seen with around 25% of the BT telephone exchanges I had worked on. And all in all, was a load of scare monandry, and had to be taken with a pinch of salt, since in Cheshire likely the salt mines where more useful in the Cold War.

Never seen so many BBC computers in one location, the telex I understand, but BBC computers really?

Even NAFFI tea, I remember having tea from a tea pot with the milk and sugar already added, so why ask how many sugars?

 

[morqthana]

I went to Kelvedon Hatch in Brentwood once.

Wasn't very busy.

One of the nondescript offices had been populated with a couple of shop window mannequins in uniform.

Mrs Morq was distinctly unamused when I repositioned them in an "interesting" arrangement...

 

[ericmark]

May be since I had worked in OpenReach exchanges, there was very little I had not seen before. It has been a long time since I have seen a teletext machine, don't know what replaced them? I know the fax machine does not produce legal documents, but teletext did, as the machines were installed by the telephone companies, so sure who had sent the message.

 

[JohnD]

teletext

Telex.

 

[ebee]

There is something to be said about every town having a morse key and one long wire to join the lot and use the earth as a return wire - whatever happened to the Pony Express?

 

[ericmark]

Thanks, @JohnD yes got the name wrong.

We did, it seems, have a telephone link using the railway line telephone, but now replaced with radio. As to Morse, never learnt it, only a few letters like O and S. And not up to 12 words per minute.

I was more into packet radio.

 

[securespark]

Mrs Morq was distinctly unamused when I repositioned them in an "interesting" arrangement...

Mrs S and I have similar.

I'll find humour in stuff like that and she says I'm still an 11 year old in my head!

One of the funniest things I ever saw was driving down the M5. Luckily, I was in the passenger seat, able to catch the magnificent spectacle about to unfold before me.

In a field on the left, a cow started taking a dump. Nothing odd in that, I hear you say. Except this cow had a stream of dung pouring out, making an arc, like a green/ brown rainbow. To my 11 year old brain that kind of toilet humour was hilarious.
But funnier still, the brown stream landed on another cow.

OK, maybe it doesn't sound so funny now, but at the time it was.

Or I found it funny.

OK.

Mrs S is right...

 

[morqthana]

Mrs S is right...

Mrs S & Mrs M are women.

We are not.