My Great Aunt, Margaret Box, was nursing with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Serbia during the First World War. Her diary and some of her letters home have been passed to me and I am reproducing them here. By February 1919 she was working in a hospital in Sarajevo which had been converted from a… Continue reading Spring in the Serbian air and a famous visitor
Month: March 2023
The Apple II Cassette Interface
My first Personal Computer, one I owned, rather than one I used, was an Apple II Plus, which I bought from Pete and Pam Computers around 1980. They had recently started in business importing Apple computers from the US, as this was before the Apple II Europlus. The switched mode power supply, although it had… Continue reading The Apple II Cassette Interface
We are as much in the dark as you are, Mr Box
The First World War left much confusion in it’s wake, even though an Armistice had been signed on 11th November 1918, many people were still far from home in the early months of the following year. These included my Great Aunt, Margaret Box – who had joined the Scottish Women’s Hospitals as a nurse, serving… Continue reading We are as much in the dark as you are, Mr Box