Comments on: ITV gave me my BBC Micro http://www.sumption.org/2009/01/21/itv-gave-me-my-bbc-micro/ Book and film reviews, stuff about photography, geekery, plus Dan Sumption's adventures in Sheffield and London. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob http://www.sumption.org/2009/01/21/itv-gave-me-my-bbc-micro/comment-page-1/#comment-42994 Rob Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:03:59 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/?p=1596#comment-42994 I did type that in the comment above originally, it still amuses me to this day!<br><br>Good old Research Machines! I did type that in the comment above originally, it still amuses me to this day!

Good old Research Machines!

]]> By: dansumption http://www.sumption.org/2009/01/21/itv-gave-me-my-bbc-micro/comment-page-1/#comment-42993 dansumption Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:44:40 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/?p=1596#comment-42993 For my first two or three years at secondary school, we only had one machine between approx. 1,000 pupils (a Research Machines). Us "computer club" members used to take turns every lunchtime to sit in the office and type in programs.<br><br>Usually of the variety that ended with:<br>20 GOTO 10 For my first two or three years at secondary school, we only had one machine between approx. 1,000 pupils (a Research Machines). Us “computer club” members used to take turns every lunchtime to sit in the office and type in programs.

Usually of the variety that ended with:
20 GOTO 10

]]> By: Rob http://www.sumption.org/2009/01/21/itv-gave-me-my-bbc-micro/comment-page-1/#comment-42992 Rob Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:41:47 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/?p=1596#comment-42992 10 PRINT I miss the old BBC Micro, although the sound of the tapes still haunts me.<br><br>We used to have a Micro B at home, and a lesser model at school - it still amuses me that back in those days there used to be 20 or so kids all sat, horseshoe chair arrangement, round a screen - and in my last year of primary school a similar arrangement hanging round a 386 that'd been donated to us by Avesta Sheffield. 10 PRINT I miss the old BBC Micro, although the sound of the tapes still haunts me.

We used to have a Micro B at home, and a lesser model at school – it still amuses me that back in those days there used to be 20 or so kids all sat, horseshoe chair arrangement, round a screen – and in my last year of primary school a similar arrangement hanging round a 386 that'd been donated to us by Avesta Sheffield.

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