Warning, Telephone Scam

[LDunlop76]

Re Frank's comment - caller ID phones are available over here. Also BT offers a service for a small quarterly charge by which they block all calls from unidentified numbers. We used it for a while when we were getting prank calls. The only drawback is it fails to recognise the number of anyone calling from an extension, so my Dad couldn't ring from work and one of the children's schools had trouble getting through, so we only kept in on for 6 months to deter the prankster.

Bill, hubby and I went to Liverpool university in the 70's when the monster computer at Manchester was still in use and being shared between Liverpool and Manchester universities! How incredible that seems today! As hubby was doing electrical engineering, he had to use the computer as part of his coursework, but Liverpool students had to wait for their alloted time slot to feed their computer cards (binary system, hole-punched cards) into a machine and transmit it to Manchester. Seems daft to think we've got more powerful machines sitting in our front rooms nowadays than entire universities had 25 years ago!

[anacortesdamp]

Linda:

The calculator you can buy at Curry's for 2 quid has more capability than British Aerospace had in its computers when I left in 1966! They took up a room about 20 x 100 ft and needed incredible amounts of air conditioning.

I remember working with a system at Warton called DEUCE, which had a capability roughly equivalent to a 5 quid scientific calculator. It was programmed in binary code and it was a real hernia to get data out in a format you could understand. I was a student apprentice in Flight Test at the time and computers were the latest "magic".

Little did we know then how much they would take over our lives! Even though I worked in Flight Simulation for 12 years, the potential didn't register.

Frank

Frank

[William R]

Spitfire, Thanks for info. Mine was from "panicware" now you have reminded me. For me it does all they claim it will. William R.