How the vikings used to live

It was a while back when I thought to myself, the school projects of yesteryear were so much more mundane than they are these days. I recall being shut in a cardboard box in P2 or P3 and instructed to be the 'heart of the computer' and when two numbers written on cardboard were posted through the letter box style slot with a +, -, x, or / I was to select the answer and push it back through. To begin with I think the computer was having some blue screen of death issues and I was just randomly pushing anything out, I guess I was quite excited being the number crunching ssuper computer and I forgot about doing the job itself. I eventually managed to reboot and push out a 4 for 2 + 2 etc. You know computers were so much bigger in those days, roughly the size of a small child the smallest boy in the class capable of readin answers in the relative obscurity of a cardboard box.

So our eldest has just finished a model of a viking house which is looking very good. I had thought of asking her to explain the house and at the end to say something along the lines of 'and here is where they put the plasma screen tv and they would have had the jacuzzi over there' to see what the reaction was, I have however thought the better of it.

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