Also degrees weren’t essential: you could get decent jobs with a HNC.

Which didn’t cost you £9k/yr.

Fees for my first year of HNC in 1974 were £4.

That was history. And, to be fair, for the salary, it was almost in the days when the big, white five pound notes were personally signed by the Governor of the Bank of England!

And all those job ads. Them were the days.

It always makes I laugh to see adverts for “Experienced Men required” Salary £850 p.a.

The copies would be thick as well, I’m sure – hopefully more of a burden to carry than to read!

Then Electronic Times appeared and it doubled the workload, so she got a rack of individual pigeonholes made and installed so we had to collect our own.

Thank you, Ollie!

And yes, here’s to the next 65, and all they hold!

Thanks for sharing Martin.

Ferranti – what a name…and the (almost legendary) Transputer. So sad it never took off… (in ’89 I remember doing a module on parallel programming, taught by someone from the Transputer centre that was located in Sheffield at the time. Occam was the language, with its own neat ‘folding’ editor…)