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       Post AwBo3qM9d0vES7uFRA by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #AwBo3pB80WVYndjvc0 by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
       2025-07-16T06:39:41Z
       
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       “Meet the COMPUTER ADDICTS”Chris was living his #RetroComputer life back in 1983. It was foretold 😂🤣☺️#BBC / #computing  #work / #hardware / #VideoGames / #Commodore / #PET 1983 &lt;https://youtube.com/watch?v=jbu0kmCeLSI
       
 (DIR) Post #AwBo3qM9d0vES7uFRA by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
       2025-07-16T06:52:23Z
       
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       Oh shite, I was wrong.  Chris has a #CommodorePET at home and a thumping big hard drive. Wait for it, Chris is writing #software in Commodore #BASIC, an “expert system” for ‘House Planning’. Expected time to completion? Three months to write the code; Three months to populate the (database) system to make it useful.Hack Chris, Hack#hacker / #applications
       
 (DIR) Post #AwBo3rdCt69mPItNei by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
       2025-07-16T07:05:23Z
       
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       “It’s a bright and sunny day, just right for a stroll in the fresh air. But businessman Graham has got a problem that’s keeping him indoors. He’s tying to locate the Princess of Serenia (The Wizard and the Princess and Adventure in Serenia) …”See the pattern? 🤣☺️#RetroGames / #Apple2 / #KingsQuest &lt;https://hiresadventure.fandom.com/wiki/Serenia&gt;
       
 (DIR) Post #AwBo3sYHStoJGJaxcG by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
       2025-07-16T07:32:20Z
       
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       Shop keeper Phyllis used her computer system to automate book keeping, taking the time to prepare from five hours to five minutes. Having learned the system down to hardware level, Phyllis is now building an electronics kit. Her aim? Build a computer herself; Or as we called it an “electronic gadget”.What Phyllis doesn’t say is she was a maths graduate from University and “#Cypher Clerk” in “Hut 5” at #BletchleyPark during the war.The”Official Secrets Act” was in force in 1983 😂🤣☺️#UK / WW2 / #computing / #bombe / #SigInt / #accounts / #hardware #kits / #Commodore / #PET / #RetroComputing
       
 (DIR) Post #AwBo3xcibpKazWi4jA by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
       2025-07-16T09:06:55Z
       
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       Young’uns forget after WW2 a fair percentage of the male population in the UK were trained to kill. The rest including women served in many public and military jobs including code breaking. This is of course, conjecture but Phyllis seems quite adept at putting the machine to work crunching numbers and knows discrete electronics. The difference between single and dual potentiometers, capacitors. A tell is “electronic gadget.”According to the YT comments, Phyllis passed away in 2020. It’s conceivable Phyllis was almost 60 here. Easily old enough to have lived through WW2.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwBo42Kp5mzHbTNM1o by peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
       2025-07-16T09:15:25Z
       
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       Approximately 8000 women worked at #BletchleyPark during WW2.  One codebreaker I can quickly look up is #JaneFawcett MBE. “In 1940, at the age of 18, she was interviewed by senior #codebreaker #StuartMilnerBarry, and joined the secret codebreaking project at Bletchley Park. She joined a group of women known as the &quot;#Debs of Bletchley Park&quot;, … “Hughes was assigned to Hut 6 a &quot;Decoding Room&quot; of women only”.“On 25 May 1941, Hughes and several other women were briefed on the search for the German battleship #Bismarck. Shortly thereafter, she decoded a message referring to the Bismarck that detailed its current position and destination in France.““Her work did not come to light until decades later, during the 1990s, as it had been classified under Britain&#39;s Official Secrets Act”.Jane passed away in 2016. #OSA / #WW2 / #CodeBreaker / #personal &lt;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fawcett&gt;