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Filename: +CHAD2
Read OK: ✔
File size: 1125 bytes
Load address: D6B630D
Exec address: 2000
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File contents
Christopher Chadwick, 
227 CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, WILTSHIRE, SN2 1AE, 01793  488020.  1/8/98

Dear Gus

Thanks for yours, I hadn't expected to hear from you because, as you would
have gathered from the previous disc, I have to leave the EUG.  Not your
fault but I have t reclaim the space for the baby Chadders due in January.

Still, it gives me the opportunity to ramble on a bit more.  

I shall miss the old elk.  I owe it a great deal.  I can't honestly say I
would never have have dragged myself out of the rut I was in without it,
but it was all so much easier.  I say this because next week marks my ten
years in the IT business (If you noticed the bunting and balloons going up
in your street it's nothing to do with me!) During that time the
technology has changed almost unrecognisably, and I say this well aware
that the real change was during the fifties, sixties and seventies, by
comparison things have been pretty stable since the introduction of
mainstream personal computing in the early eighties.  Nevertheless, things
are still jumping (Chips will probably be replaced by spheres within the
forseeable future, no I'm not talking rubbish) and it's an exciting
business to be in.  Thank you BBC Acorn electron.  Although hopelessly out
of date I am convinced it still has a use for those wanting to learn the
fundamentals of programming and computer innards and works.

I can't leave without recounting my latest experiences from the wacky
world of consumer goods.  Brought about by reflections upon the humble
cassette, the only universal data strage system for 8-bit Acorns.  They're
everywhere, and have astounded hi-fi buffs with the way a system designed
for lo-fi office dictation became a near top of the shop hi-fi fixture by
overcoming its essentially lo-fi qualities of narrow tape and sloooow
speed.  Same goes for computer tapes of course.

Have you heard of mini-disc?  This is and was the latest attempt by
whoever it is who wants to do this sort of thing to shift us from our
beloved cassette, and we Brits are particularly struck with the chewy
tapey cheapy crunchy Philips music cassette.  It's greatest benefit for me
is providing a cheap entry route to new music.  Do I know I'd like
Borodin?  Why not buy a cassette for a fiver and find out on the way to
work, instead of lashing out fifteen quid and wait until I'm home?

For some time the cassette catalogue in shops has been reducing, I haven't
picked up any lessening of sales - just the record companies and shops
trying to ween their customers off the last non digital format.

Various systems of affordable recordables have been foisted on the public
and all thrown back with narey a sneer.  Including the digital cassette
that could play analogue cassettes.  The manufacturers of Mini-Disc (MD,
get used to it) have persisted however, and the breakthrough achieved.  A
year ago, in the middle of another TV ad campaign for MD with a big splash
in Dixon's I popped into the HMV next door and said, "Have you got  any
pre-recorded mini disc's?"

"Are you from Mars?"
Sonot yet, not there then.

A couple of months ago, one of those decadent and exotically paid computer
consultants that haunt my business began working with me.  He said he had
mini disc, yes he liked it, and yes prerecorded material was very hard
and expensive to come by, but the blanks were common enough which is
really what he wanted.  Yes they were re-recordable and no they wouldn't
always play on other peoples players.

Last week, I thought I'd try the MD search again.  Dixon's have nothing in
the window but they do have a large display instore, including a
factomation pamphlet culled from a slightly disreputable mens magazine for
extra laddish cred, and an accompanying rack of prerecorded MDs.  Next
door in HMV they no longer think I'm from Mars and have a decent display
of MDs.  This is the same introductory route enjoyed by CDs back in the
eighties.  As yet there is no Beatles catalogue on MD, and the classical
selection looked pretty minimal.  I've a hunch the next 'new' release from
the fabs will come out first on MD to give it that sales kick, whether
that will say more about the feebleness of the material or the desperation
of the MD pushers can be decided at the time.  I won't be joining in.  I'm
waiting for recordable CDs.  And solid state players of course.

Chris

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00001120  68 72 69 73 0d                                    |hris.|
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