Another Broken Laptop

[gregers]

me im an ugly sod,but hey your older then me lol

[Guest gooner52]

i would like to think wiser

 

dont forget your a virgo virgin also

 

[NikpV]

i would like to think ....

 

gooner 1 modern medicine 0

 

 

;) ;) :) :(

[Guest MATT jr]

i have just got a laptop (my 1st one) for uni - again, for computer science, and both business and computing assignments.

 

Either that statement is not totally accurate, or you are going to have to do all your computing assignments in your car. Seat will probably be more comfy though :) :(

 

;) oh yeah and that laptop too - but i dont count that as its for entertainment/navigation purposes only.

 

 

...judging from you lot - times havnt changed! - kids will and have always played on computers ;)

 

and what the heck is a bbc b? z80's? spectrum's and amiga's? (amiga rings a bell tho, think my uncle had one)

 

MJR

[Guest Cepheus]

My first computer was the younger brother of the BBC B - The Acorn Electron!!! parents couldn't afford the BBC and my oldest sister, then me needed one for basic programming for O level and then GCSE Computer Studies. Man that was a heap of sh1t! Got to be an expert on Chuckie Egg though .... reached level 128 once lmao..... *starts to google for chuckie egg and finds one with a spectrum emulator ..... no sleep for me tonight* ;) :) :(

[NikpV]

you kids :( we had computers then like you have games consoles now (well not you ~)

[Guest gooner52]

you does remember the c2n unit of the commodores

not the band

 

[katman]

and what the heck is a bbc b?

 

Only the best home computer of its age. ;)

 

It was the de facto computer used in schools and almost every episode of Tomorrows World showed a lab that was using a BBC B to run their experiments. I still have two of them in fully working order. (I did have 6 at one time!!!)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

 

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=29

 

http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/machines/bbc-model-b.html

 

http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/roms.html

 

http://www.machine-room.org/computer.php?i...mp;view=general

 

http://www.videogamejunkie.co.uk/hardware/modelb/modelb.php

 

It had the ability for programs to be stored in Eproms and the machine itself was instant on....well two seconds for the two beeps it emited when powered up. Programs stored in Eprom would also load instantly so within a couple of seconds you could be word processing or playing a game.

 

BRILLIANT MACHINES :)

 

They also had a PROPER keyboard, unlike the Spectrum which was like poking your fingers into cold rice pudding.

 

It had a "younger brother" called the Electron and was superceeded by its Big Brother the Archimedes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

[NikpV]

wow thanks for the links - just found some more classics Frak, Chuckie egg manic miner umm probably didnt do any work :)

[katman]

wow thanks for the links - just found some more classics Frak, Chuckie egg manic miner umm probably didnt do any work :)

 

Might have to dig mine out at some stage and play "Mr. Do"

 

Didnt use mine for games much....basically because I am rubbish at games!!!!

 

My BBC's had to work for a living. One spent 10 years in a pub running a video switcher that I built. It NEVER crashed and the only time it failed to boot was when someone acidently ejected the floppy disk that it loaded the program from.

 

Wish I could say the same about PC's !!!!!

 

Always wanted an Archimedes but didnt get round to getting one although I did try one out with a program I had written. It used to take about two minutes to run on the BBC, tried it on the Archie and it finished in under a second !!!!!!