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BBC model B. You can thank that computer for your fancy mobile phones. Got a model B upstairs, I need to refurb the psu as it's a bit "smokey" lol

I bet your local service has been oversold. If you go onto the virgin forum and make a post asking if there is a problem they will check and respond. Do not be tempted to bump your message as it takes 2 or 3 days for virgin to respond, and each time you attempt to bump it you move back to...

It's supposedly craptastic. Lots of bugs. I was one of the original testers for the 2 and currently have a 2a which is the best of the bunch.

Yet for all its "shitness" you can still remove the stock apps from your home screen. [emoji1]

I'll be the first to ask. How the f**k did you manage to dremel your screen?

Screen is pointless and s**t. Use the app. I picked up a black for 260 in November from Amazon Italy (was actually delivered next day from Amazon uk)

The only thing I miss is the led notification light not working with Lightflow. Even Carl is coming up against this issue now... So maybe it might get fixed sooner rather than later now.

I've not used access for 20 odd years...... I assume these days you write .NET code in a form?

I use the F2! Although we did stick some F4's on some boards because they have DSP instructions, but the overall power consumption went up. (our product uses ~4 mA) in normal operation, so microamp jumps in consumption are bad for us, let alone milliamp. We use C++ though mainly just...

Sadly I think you're going to have to bite the bullet on that one!

It's something you've got installed or a setting, compare your "awake" vs "screen on" to mine. See how little my awake is on. Your screen if off and then the phone remains awake for ages after (like 30 mins to an hour). Can you charge your phone at work and then leave it overnight on battery...

And on a completely factory phone does it do the same? (I.e no apps installed) It's got to be an app or some setting. This is my graph from yesterday, ignore the red bit, it's a lie as I'd switched off my second sim at that point which was active all day until that point. Greenify was...

You don't have voice search enabled from any screen do you?

Everything but the one I wanted! Lol Click on the graph and it shows you another screen, post that one. (it basically shows you what was active at a point in time)

Screen on time? What does your battery use page look like where it shows the battery level against screen/sleep/GSM state etc?

What mail client are you using and what mail service are you using? (i.e gmail, icloud etc)

On the most complex one I have zero bytes free. You won't believe how long I spent optimising stuff and hand tweaking pieces of code to make it fit in. Worst of all the stupid linker doesn't tell you how much ram you are running over by, just tells you that you've run out of space. Helpful.

I love mine. My issue with the latest update was to do with an app I had running because it happened after rolling back. Once I removed the app, the issue went away. Currently I'm NYC and using the second sim for data on 3! 25gb of data, yes please.

What do you do buddy? (if you can say) I've worked on a project for nearly 3 years the out various iterations of spec on a radar for vehicle detection. It's ultra low power and we have customers using it in some pretty cool stuff. The main radar board also has a secondary processor on it...

Seeing all this talk of ultra high level languages makes me think I'd kill for ram on the product I work on! 120 kilobytes of ram and in that I have... RTOS, Bluetooth stack, tcp/ip stack, USB device stack, USB host stack, eMMC + FAT stack. That's before I even get to my application...

Of course, in the age of the internet "grannies garden" is something totally different! :D

BBC model B.

Did you install the latest update? It's cack, I removed it.

I think my first hard drive was 10mb.

I sadly predate even that. I worked with a guy (he was a professor and former physics teacher at eton) who built a computer out of discrete components, not microchips, transistors. He was about 70!

Up until recently we still had a piece of equipment in our office that had a 5 1/4 inch floppy. They did take off, they were the format of choice for the day, but got replaced with the 3 1/5 inch disk which was higher capacity, more robust etc. There was originally an 8 inch floppy as...

Toys for geeks essentially. Up until then, if you wanted one you had to be an electronics geek and build one (it's not that difficult, even back then).

3 PAYG sim, top up 20 quid and use it to by the unlimited addon. Unlimited data (=12GB) And calls and texts come out of your "home" allowance.

Java's motto was "Write once, run anywhere." where basically, it should've been "Write once, run anywhere, horribly.". I hate it, and I hate Eclipse with an even bigger passion. Apps look like b*****d children of every operating system going, they don't behave like they should on any OS and...

C or C++ with a sprinkling of assembler thrown in here and here. For desktop software, C++ with Qt, proper cross platform. ;) I do spend a lot of time looking at compiler output to see what code it's generated and whether in critical places I can make a better job of optimising the code than...