> No smart phone in the waiting room to compete with? Yes. Sometimes it was a deliberate tactic - mostly adverts would go for the 'just an evocative picture',

> No smart phone in the waiting room to compete with? Yes. Sometimes it was a deliberate tactic - mostly adverts would go for the 'just an evocative picture', but a few would go the 'wall of text' route. My memory pops up the name Alan Sugar for an example of those - really dense walls ...