Mutterings - Aug 29

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Disappointment :: Valley (I thought this was Bunyan but it appears to be a recent film!)
2. Resources :: Library
3. Steady :: Turn (as she goes..)
4. Team :: Building
5. Barge :: Horse (to pull one)
6. Issues :: Nit-picking
7. Engagement :: Calendar
8. Folks :: Museum (probably bastardised German?)
9. Supervision :: Weekly (college days..)
10. Stream :: Live

I've been very busy - still catching up! Hopefully a post will appear on the past week

CADES

I don't think I'd seen this wikipedia page on CADES before. I'd nearly forgotten the project name - I worked on this back in the early days of it in 1971 as a pre-university trainee and then in the summer vacs. I'd started off at ICL helping with simulation programs written in Beta/S1 - S1 was the forerunner of S3, I don't think there was an S2? Ostech was a small department of around 16 so working there was a great experience! In the summer vacs once we were back in Kidsgrove (we'd moved at one stage to Coptall house in Newcastle) I looked after the submission of jobs by developers into the CADES database. I see the wikipedia page labels it as a version control system and a means of validating the design

The CADES design approach, called Structural Modelling, was rigidly data-driven and hierarchical, and expressed in a formal design language, SDL. Design specifications written in SDL were processed by the Design Analyser, before being input to the CADES Product Database

. I think I once had the Computer Weekly articles referenced in that article but I suspect they've long since been lost.
Whilst there I also had an early computer keyboard/monitor on my desk, I've searched for pictures but so far failed, it had 3(?) big white push transmit buttons beneath the screen as well as a conventional keyboard. There were also the delights of using an acoustic modem and hand card punches! One of these!

Mutterings - Aug 21

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Dating :: App
2. Path :: Executable (computing as ever..)
3. Scorn :: Laugh
4. Gel :: Hair
5. Simple :: Simon
6. You :: Toi
7. Climb :: Route (rock climbing..)
8. Number :: Four (but was tempted by anaesthetic!)
9. Short :: Fzzt! (electrical!)
10. Hell :: Handbasket

Mutterings - Aug 13

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Original :: Release
2. Vent :: Fume
3. Screw :: Brass
4. Type :: Face
5. Odor :: Body
6. Lazy :: Bastard
7. Release :: Open (some gates)
8. Status :: Return (computing..)
9. Architect :: System
10. Management :: Dilbert

Mutterings - Aug 4

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. 2 weeks :: Holiday - I've just been calculating the holiday days left from work after taking Christmas into account!
2. Accrued :: Credit
3. Delighted :: Expression
4. Facilitate :: Scheme (possibly in a bad sense!)
5. Boredom :: Ennui - and reminded of France s'est ennui (grammar?) in early '68
6. Scarce :: Make (oneself)
7. Poised :: to leap
8. Family :: History
9. Backtrack :: Think twice
10. Retirement :: Imminent!