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They stopped prduction in 1985. Might be worth hanging on to - seems to be a market for them on eBay....
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Yes - the HM Duet! Had 2 controllers - one for the up line, the other for the down line....
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With everything going on in the world at the moment, my heart sinks whenever I visit a news site and so many column inches are given over to this pair.
I just wish they'd fade away gracefully and enjoy their lives together out of the public spotlight.
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Going back 10 years ago or so, I had a number of ex-colleagues who said they'd been taken on by TCS only for the role to be canned after a few weeks. The claim was that they were being used as a stop gap to keep up the head count while some other guy from overseas was having his paperwork finalised...
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Tata, according to Gemini -
So Burnham saying he will only award contracts to UK companies won't change anything then, will it? I'm guessing what goes for Tata will also be the same for all the other big consultancies.
But you can bet your bottom dollar that they will gaslight...
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I have a long list of clients with whom I have secured repeat business over the years.
Trouble is, one or two of them (e.g. Honda) no longer operate in the UK and most of the rest no longer hire contractors - everything is sourced through the big consultancies.
None of that...
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Cheetah Chrome, Dead Boys co-founder and guitarist
https://www.nme.com/news/music/cheet...ged-71-3968641...
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