Old School Computers

[Andrew]

As we all know technology is moving quite fast and I realised this further today when talking to one of my collegues, who is a few years younger than me, and they were discussing how their IT course at school involved using PCs and designing websites

This made me feel about 50 as all I remember from the majority of school IT lessons were using the likes of an Acorn Achimedes to do silly little tasks that formed nothing more than a school project.

If you also did the majority of your secondary school education in the 1990s can you remember all these pre-PC computers?

The Mice had 3 buttons as I remember as well, how did that work?

[Sput]

Memories! In fact, according to The Register today, Acorn is about to reform to bring out a series of PC laptops.
Middle button did menu, right wasn't used that much I don't believe

[Lorns]

Old school computers. Now that takes me back. I remember there being about 5 computers in something that would now resemble nothing more than a broom cupboard. It was an optional subject which i didn't study because i thought what will I want a computer for as i'm gonna dance or do hair. How wrong was i eh? Mind you the internet was not around then and we had an old dial phone not a push button one, red telephone boxes and gigantic batteries for mobile phones. Mr Nick will remember the ones i'm on about.

[Gavin Scott]

We used BBC Master computers in school. When ZX Spectrum computers were all the rage with my contemporaries, my dad thought it best to invest in an Acorn Electron (which I still have).

He bought me the add on which allowed it to take cartridge games and a joystick, but I never bought myself any games.

I saw an Acorn running just 10 years ago in a florist shop. It was being used as an ePOS (shop till).

[Nick Harvey]

We had this model in my day.

[Sput]

Ironically more powerful than the average Acorn Archimedes.

[Jamez]

Were BBC computers actually made by the BBC?

[Lorns]

I remember my brother having that bat and ball computer game ( a bit like tennis - ish , think it was the first computer game) I'm still not sure how he got that on the tv. I was so young i thought it was a tv channel but i could never find it. The next game i remember is Space invaders at the Arcades then Pac - man and the one where the little lad on a push bikes delivers newspapers. What was that game called?

[TG]

Paperboy!

[Pete]

Were BBC computers actually made by the BBC?

they were contracted to acorn

[DJGM]

IMO the Acorn Archimedes was a classic computer. Wish I could have another go with "Pro-Artisan" for old times sake!