Paul Franklin

I love the Nancy comics, this one is funny on so many levels

It’s a corker - also featuring a deeply nasty Willam Hartnell as the callous boss, and a super young “Big Tam” Sean Connery

It grows a little bit all the time, but only when you’re not looking

I read somewhere that the nuns only made it into the series after Davies decided to make them silent, which meant the actors were paid a lower rate, which in turn made them affordable.

This was bloody marvellous

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“A gluey substance found on the Chapel floor” eek!

Yes, that’s it! The goofy cover belies the terror held within!

I had an annual in the 70s, I think it was called Ghost Special, with items about Borley Rectory and the Grey Man of Ben Macdui, also scared the willies out of 10 year old me

667. Neighbour of the beast.

Sad - that was also the fate of my first digital watch in 1978

We're likely going to end up in a situation where no human being stands a chance of understanding how the products of this process (eg vibe-coded software) actually work - a baroque and impenetrable black box of unknowable code

Yeah, I guess - though I did ask my boss at the time (very early 1990s) and he replied "it's so that we can charge more and people will accept it" :-)

I use an HDMI extender to get around that (a bit messy with the cables, but needs must and all that)

yes, probably correct - "perceived added value" was the term used when I worked in videogames, to explain why a 3.5" floppy disc was sold in a VHS video cassette box 🫠

I don't really understand why the Apple TV needs to be so humongous in these days of Fire sticks and the like

Goodnight Hookland, from the ancient barrows and shadowlands of East Cheshire.

This is one of my favourites from P&P, helped to inspire my working class dad to become a scientist back in the 1940s

I bought a ZX81 off eBay a few years ago for my little cabinet of stuff - it sits next to my old Roland monosynth, iconic!

Quite a bit, I should think

The challenge is that they are seductively to use, replying in recognisable sentences, serving up seemingly plausible answers. It’s easy to see how people are beguiled into accepting them.

Comic book panel showing men in green space suits confronting a large alien monster

Absolutely - amazing baroque organic imagery, like nothing else. The Biogs were a triumph - blew my 10 year old mind.

Just seen a working Sinclair watch with “box and papers” on eBay for £1500!

Looks like something made by NAD or Mission in the 80s!

An amp? I’ve never seen one of those. It always surprises me that no one ever mentions the design of Sinclair products - even the C5 is pretty cool!

Belardinelli would often put himself into the background of his comic panels - a blood thirsty Inferno fan, one of the Bampot characters, and even a shrunken head on a dungeon wall. I know he wasn’t universally liked by the fans, but I always loved his art

Yes, I saw that, which prompted my skepticism about the train journey answer in the first place!

I have to say, I still love the styling of Sinclair products - and the company logo too. Minimal before minimal was a thing.

A vintage Sinclair pocket calculator with glow purple LED numbers displayed

Appears to have the same diodes as my Cambridge Universal calculator (purchased 1976)

I have NEVER seen one of those working, even back in the 70s!