Bet this doesn't last the weekend out!
Tom Elphick who has been with CSE for over 31 years is starting his semi retirement this week.
Tom is our longest serving employee, he started working with us back in the days when floppy disks were 8″ wide and if you wanted to write double sided you had to turn it over, and more often than not programs were loaded on to a computer by means of a punched cardboard strip! Yes he really is as old as he looks!!
I remember talking with him back in the 80’s when Apricot brought out a machine with a 20MB hard disk drive (and yes I do mean megabytes, we had never heard of gigabytes then) and we were laughing about it wondering why they bothered making such a big drive as no one could possibly ever need to store that much data, shows what we knew!
There are a couple of us still around who have worked with Tom for around 25 years and we can bear witness to the fact that he is still the same now as he was back then, always ready with a tale to tell, generally of the tall variety and a joke to share though after all these years I can’t say that there are many new ones!! Still it’s the way he tells em!
We wish Tom a very long and happy retirement except for Tuesdays,Wednesday and Thursdays when he can come in to the office and do his bit after all no one said we had got 30 years worth of work out of him 
Tom likes to play chess on-line, and with his new 22″ screen he will be able to see where he is going wrong, but if he is going to use his other gifts at the same time, (Whisky and decanter set) he may not improve for some time.