On 26/03/2020 11:32, Gareth Evans wrote:
On 26/03/2020 11:21, newshound wrote:
On 26/03/2020 06:46, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:16:07 UTC, Brian Gaff (Sofa)Â* wrote:
Of course if a lot of staff are off maybe that is why coal is off,
after all
working in a coal fired station means you are probably inhaling dust
and
hence your lungs are not too good.
Â* Brian



Why should that be? Do you imagine little men shovelling coal into a
furnace?


Never been to a pulverised fuel powered power station, I suppose.

I worked at the Scientific Services Department of the CEGB
which was co-sited with the Portishead A and B power stations.

No coal dust floating around at all, and the B station had
a marvellous canteen, except that you had to warn them in
the morning that you were coming for lunch.

Nearly 50 years ago now, but it seems like only yesterday
that I first had an undergraduate internship there back in 1971
during which I experienced that most exciting of playthings,
a PDP11/20 computer with its Blinkenlights interface.

Ever since then, with the whole of the machine available
to me at a very low level (Single step or even single cycle
of instructions ! ! ! ? ? ? ) I've had a DIY attitude to
software, with very much a Not-Invented-Here (NIH) approach
to software provided by others.

very impressive Gareth.....