The more things change, the more they stay the same
Richard Speed Tue 12 Jan 2021 // 10:46 UTC Share
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A batch of UK government Cabinet records from late last century has revealed that difficulties in getting users to accept new systems is nothing new. Dave from Manchester tipped us off about the opening of the records, part 4 of a collection of UK civil service documents dating from 1995 to 1997 and made available in PDF from the National Archives at the end of last year.
Among the revelations that Prime Minister John Major did not have a computer at home, the excitement of the first issuing of a Green Paper on CD-ROM ( government.direct ), concerns that doing IT in government properly might result in fewer MPs, and a 1997 suggestion that perhaps Michael Portillo s floppy disks should have been protected by KILGETTY (an encryption system) was the tale of Cab-E-Net.
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