Retro fitting
I thoroughly enjoy your Retro column each month, so I hope that you’re already planning out 2023’s many anniversaries. How about a hats-off to Sinclair Research, one of the best British computer firms, which would have been 50 years old in 2023? Likewise, it will be 50 years since Xerox produced the Alto, without which there might be no Windows as it was the first computer with a GUI.
And it’s 50 years since public-key cryptography was invented at GCHQ, too. How times have changed, with the government now seemingly far less keen on the idea of the public having cryptography than it once was…
Trevor Parish
Grab the wire
Wiring your house for Ethernet
