Date   : Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:28:49 +0100
From   : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: Beeb, this was your grandma!

Rob wrote:
> On 18/09/2009, Mark Haysman <jumbos.bazzar@...> wrote:
>   
>> Amazing! Nice find.
>>
>> Strange how the complexity of the computer over time seems to be inversely
>> proportinal to the teenagers average brain capacity. I can just imagine what
>> the bunch of thickos that spend all their time in hoods standing around the
>> paper shop throwing insults at people would make of kids back then....
>>
>>     
>
> Indeed ... I would have loved to have gone to that school! But by the
> time I was in secondary school, things had moved on a bit.  I was in
> second year when they got a room full of TRS-80 Model 1s.. never did
> any lessons with them, but we could book time on them at lunch and
> after school, which, armed with some early magazine type-ins, I did,
> and that was it, I was hooked ...
>
> Did everybody see this one:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8005.shtml?all=1&id=8005
> we have to look forward to a computer terminal in every home!
>   
Amazing stuff. Who needs a monitor when you can have a terminal that 
sounds like a machine gun! And all just for ?30 a week at 1967 prices? I 
guess you'd have to be pretty flush to have one. I wonder if a terminal 
has been preserved somewhere?


Mick