It’s time for your weekend read. And so much is happening for the Nonstop community that it’s worth considering how well Nonstop Compute offerings remain active participants in a technology world that is adapting to dramatic changes happening all around it – change never lets up but this year, we bear witness to much more than we have seen previously. Last year, Margo and I moved home. Not once but twice. A quick sale of our home in Windsor, Colorado, a small satellite suburb just outside of Ft Collins, Colorado. Fort Collins being a place where HP once dominated the local employment scene. We moved our goods and yes, cars into storage. We then acquired a condo down in Longmont from a member of our daughter’s family. Longmont is another small satellite suburb bordering Boulder, Colorado, a place where Insession gained its foothold in the US. We moved some items out of storage into the condo even as we provided items for our daughters newly renovated basement. Addressing family needs, w...
It may surprise many to read that as a teenager growing up on Sydney’s North Shore, I was already into cars. I made models of Formula One cars – back then it was a Ferrari “sharknose” and a Porsche (yes, Porsche were an F1 constructor for a number of years) – and I built slot-car circuits. My favorite configuration was the Warwick Farm race track; a circuit in Sydney’s western suburbs that, today, no longer exists. My mate Graham Long and I snuck out to the circuit one Saturday afternoon to see a club racing event and, from that time on, I must admit, I was hooked. This was the 1960s and it wasn’t long before I became a regular at a slot-car establishment in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby; nearby to my High School, Normanhurst Boys High School. I built a model of the Pontiac Tempest – a later model of which carried the badge, GTO, and it was a wild, overly large car for a slot car and my crashes were legendary, as an off-track excursion would take out several other cars. As I prepared ...