Nearly thirty years ago there was an elephants' graveyard of junked and smashed up cars just to the north east of Jeddah. Then they started burying them (acres and acres) with bulldozers, turning it into a kind of land-fill.

I can only wonder what it's like by now, especially considering the daily rate of attrition on Saudi roads.

The desert is a big place, but one day even that will be all gone!

For those for whom it may be of interest ... I've just sold my last Risc PC and the Mighty (and much modded) Oak (what a hefty beast that one is - or was)!

The Risc PC700 has a 486 board fitted. And here it is shown running Win 3.11 in all its ... er, glory! The aficionado will no doubt also note the "pizza oven door" which (unusually) is not broken.

Yes, that's a steel case on the Oak. Notice the home-brew electronics in the second photo (not by me, I hasten to add).

The fourth photo shows a Genlock board fitted inside a BBC Micro. Anyone out there ... er, genned up on Genlocks?

The last photo shows an ex-laptop HDD fitted inside an early BBC Micro. It uses a 4.3 GB IBM TravelStar HDD partitioned into two formatted 536 MB drives (effectively a 1 GB drive).

Drive 0 contains over 310 MB of files. There is a vast amount of software on there:- games, utilities and software from many of the well-known vendors of that Golden Era (far too much to list ... but including, I might add, "Elite" which was mentioned here on the forum a couple of days ago), and all accessed via an easy menu system. This is a BBC Micro, remember, not a PC. Brilliant!

Drive 1 is empty with 536 MB free. Would anyone ever fill it up?

The last two mentioned are up for grabs as part of a job-lot on eBay. But if you're excited by all this good stuff (?) you will need to be quick if you want to place a bid!

I hope that everyone has noticed the current Google box!

Pac-Man at thirty! How can that time have slipped by so quickly?

Geoff, are you still using google, for me igoogle in google chrome is much better and faster. 30 years eh (Pac Man) I only got upset when I found out that I was older than Coronation St. Not that I have ever watched it, Movies and sport only at home.

More about Pac-Man.

Meanwhile, the thing I like about Google is that the real Biomed Buddies comes up at the top of the page.

It's been a nice day for hanging out the washing today!

Not mine, I hasten to add (I would have removed the "school markings")!

Sir Clive is still a Genius Guy.

And still absolutely right in what he's saying ... as usual.

The IBM PC is 29 today.
Happy Birthday

Interesting, though, that the code name for the project was Acorn!

Here (when you have an hour of Quality Time to spare) is my mate Jason Fitzpatrick talking to Steve Furber.

"In the Beginning" and then bringing us up-to-date (well, almost).

"There are now more ARM processors on the planet than people."

Great stuff!

For those who enjoyed that ... here's even more sadness - er, I mean Genius Stuff!