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Post by Patrick on Oct 15, 2008 14:59:48 GMT
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Post by motorist on Oct 15, 2008 15:09:29 GMT
5 - and the CPC 464 they showed brought back memories, that was our first comp
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Post by Patrick on Oct 15, 2008 15:19:49 GMT
I saw an Apple I in a charity shop about ten years ago - with a box of 5.25" discs! It would have been fun for curiosity value! No more than a calculator now really. Talking of which, my Dad once rescued from his office one of these typewriter sized adding machines - mid sixties model - As big as a couple of large shoe boxes, yet all it could (mechanically) do was +,-,x or /! Astonishing comparing it with the tiny ZX81 back then!
Very satisfying those adders though - the Kerchunking sound of each calculation was a sensory experience in itself!
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Post by rjpageuk on Oct 17, 2008 11:38:58 GMT
I only managed 5 . I thought I would do better but I didnt recognize any of the machines in the first 4 or 5 questions.
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Post by trubble on Oct 17, 2008 14:33:10 GMT
I got one right. I could have done better had I just pressed random buttons. I watched UC that night and I got two right then.
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Post by everso on Oct 21, 2008 23:19:43 GMT
We had an Acorn Electron (still have it in fact) which loaded from a cassette tape. It was only used for games. Hopper (or was it Frogger?) was my favourite, where frogs tried to cross a busy road or a swirling river and got squashed or drowned in the process.
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Post by rjpageuk on Oct 22, 2008 14:05:47 GMT
If I remember correctly the original was called Frogger and Hopper was an imitation, I would guess the Acorn got the imitation, Hopper. My first experience of computers was a ZX Spectrum in about 1985. I still remember buying a book which contained all of the code for a game which you had to painstakingly type in and then save to cassette only for it to not work
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Post by Patrick on Oct 22, 2008 23:46:56 GMT
I had an Electron. Never quite got the hang of it compared to the Sinclair. Oh boy the joys of programming "BASIC" though! 1: FOR I=1 TO 20 etc etc! I used to spend days - and I actually used up a whole 16k of RAM doing this - working out a programme so that I could enter the name, make, model and year of a car and find out it's value - by dutifully entering all the values from my "Parkers Price Guide" - and programming in the selection process. .........and just when you put the final finishing touches to it - you'd jog the table accidentally and the whole lot would disappear in a blink of a TV screen!
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Post by Patrick on Oct 22, 2008 23:48:56 GMT
I got one right. I could have done better had I just pressed random buttons. I watched UC that night and I got two right then. Damn! That's one more than me!
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Post by rjpageuk on Oct 23, 2008 11:16:18 GMT
Oh boy the joys of programming "BASIC" though! 1: FOR I=1 TO 20 etc etc! I used to spend days - and I actually used up a whole 16k of RAM doing this - working out a programme so that I could enter the name, make, model and year of a car and find out it's value - by dutifully entering all the values from my "Parkers Price Guide" - and programming in the selection process. .........and just when you put the final finishing touches to it - you'd jog the table accidentally and the whole lot would disappear in a blink of a TV screen! This is kind of what I still do . I am writing some software in a form of basic right now (when not posting on here)!
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Post by Patrick on Oct 23, 2008 11:25:09 GMT
So it still has practical applications today then? Wow.
With the price guide thing - It's a pity I didn't keep it up because it took about another twenty years and the internet before they did it themselves.
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