Almost ten years ago to the day I got a new car radio and to my delight I soon found that you could press a button and the tape would go from playing side A to side B, not only this but if you played the tape to the end on one side it automatically started to play the other side. Needless to say I was impressed it was a major technological break through, it was like living in the year 3000, if Caption Kirk had a tape player on the Enterprise he would gladly have swapped it for my car radio.

It seems somewhat ironic looking back that I was impressed by something that now seems so primitive when these days I complain if an internet site does not pop up within two second of my mouse click, or if my mobile phone fails to get a signal.