http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10951040
Graham -- Graham Patterson, Systems Administrator Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley 510-643-2222 "...past the Tyranosaurus, the Mastodon, the mathematical puzzles, and the meteorite..." - directions to my office. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. |
>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Patterson <[hidden email]> writes:
Graham> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10951040 Graham Wow - quite a coincidence - Ousedale (where the kids in the video were from) was where I went to high school back before I became Bezerkeley-ized. I was actually the first student at Ousedale to use a school computer - a Sinclair ZX80 (much like a Timex Sinclair 1000). After that we got an RM380Z (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Machines_380Z - I doubt many of these made it to this side of the pond). We also had most of a Nascom 2, but it turned out you needed all of it for it to do anything useful. I can tell you when thing, though - we were a hard core Z80 school - none of that BBC Micro (or, even worse, Commodore PET) 6502 rubbish when I was around! And using hardware sound for bombs - pah - that's not how the Ousedale kids did in the old days. If you wanted to make noises you did it the proper way, by twiddling a single I/O port bit using assembler, not by using BASIC to get some fancy-pants sound chip to do all the work for you... David. -- David Johnson, [hidden email], (510) 666-2983 System Manager, International Computer Science Institute PS I can't actually claim to be the first student to program at Ousedale School - there were some students before me who did a computer class by mailing punch cards to a mainframe located at the other end of the county and getting printouts back a week later... Graham> -- Graham Patterson, Systems Administrator Lawrence Hall Graham> of Science, UC Berkeley 510-643-2222 "...past the Graham> Tyranosaurus, the Mastodon, the mathematical puzzles, and Graham> the meteorite..." - directions to my office. Graham> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham> The following was automatically added to this message by Graham> the list server: Graham> To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe Graham> to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find Graham> out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web Graham> site: Graham> http://micronet.berkeley.edu Graham> Messages you send to this mailing list are public and Graham> world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and Graham> searched on the Internet. This means these messages can Graham> be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective Graham> employers, and people who have known you in the past. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. |
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