I knew a company that did maintenance of old control systems for industrial plant - into the 1990's they were having to maintain mini/mainframe kit from the 1960s.
Some devices booted from paper tape and, over the years, the paper tape had worn out so it had been replaced with leather tape....
So are the Pirate Party seriously looking for candidates? I live in Edinburgh North & Leith.
Not a big majority and in a seat that I suspect will have a lot of strong feeling on this topic (particularly students). For £500 it might be worth standing as a Pirate myself.....
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"