Date   : Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:41:16 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: OT: Beeb for real work

Tangentially to Beeb stuff, I've just submitted a response on proposed 
new wards for Sheffield City Council: mdfs.net/lgbr2013/jgh

Tangentially Beeb related in that I originally did a lot of the typing 
up and number manipulation for the 2002/2004 review a decade ago on my 
BBC Master.

I'd taken an Amstrad Notebook into the library and typed up all the 
city's polling district electorates, then at home copied the data over 
to the Beeb. I then wrote bits of code to chop up and add up the various 
numbers to see what models would get close to the required quota, and to 
identify areas where I'd have to get the big maps out and start counting 
individual houses.

Anyway, that's this decade's done. I can get back to doing some proper 
Beeb programming now, get that Acorn Atom Tube host finished, patch 
Atomulator to make it emulate a System.

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J.G.Harston - jgh@...      - mdfs.net/jgh