Going through his dad’s old desk drawers brings back happy analogue memories for Jon Honeyball

ne consequence of the ongoing lockdown is that I’ve been spending a lot less time at my desk in the lab. This hasn’t been a big problem: having a fibre connection from home has been a huge help (see p110), with everything logically local even if it’s physically ten miles away. Even so, I have continued to drop in from time to time, usually on a Saturday or Sunday when the place is empty, to get the necessary on-site jobs completed, swap the LTO