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One of my friends mentioned that his colleagues had nicknamed him ‘the Computer’. I asked him if this was due to his prodigious brainpower and impressive multitasking skills. “No”, he admitted, “its because someone is always swearing at me and trying to get me to work.”

There was a young lady called Kate, who played in the dark with her date. When asked whether he had seduced her, she smiled and said – no it amused her, My dear, it wasn’t a man – it was a computer. There was a young lady named Mabel, so ready, so willing, so able. [...]

Its amazing to see how fast the cyber world is changing. In 1995, when I took up computer science as a subject, we used PCs (without a harddisk) and 5.25 inch floppies. There was only one PC-XT in our lab – those that came with a harddisk. There was no LAN, no battery backup. I [...]