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Old 9th Sep 2018, 16:05
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tucumseh
 
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Correct! That'll teach me to start a new paragraph.
We had some laptops in 93/94. We didn't get networked desktop computers until 1996. The latter were disabled. In 93 we had a few 286s or 386s, bought if I recall from a recently retired RN Chief turned computer salesman. Just before the move to Shabbeywood in 96, we were asked if we wanted to take the old ones, including huge laser printers, home. I guess most of them were just binned eventually, with no accounting.
I wonder who lies awake at night thinking up these questions. A couple of years ago a parliamentary committee reported the Army had lost rafts of BOWMAN radios. Shock horror. Probably all quietly forgotten when it was pointed out that when some users got the radios, they chucked them away as they already had something two generations newer.
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