Day 761

Confirmed an unformed intimation that QBASIC would work fine with the new mouse (the Amstrad mouse driver conflicts with QBASIC as they both interfere with the clock in the same way). Tested that shareware C compiler too, with encouraging results.

Watched Nelson Mandela being sworn in as President of South Africa - who'd've thought it eh?

Partial eclipse of the sun in the evening, couldn't see much owing to high cloud. There was one in May 1983 too as I recall; coincidence.