Date   : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:01:34 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

On 29/07/2010 19:55, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

> Bet that brings back memories for some readers ;-)

I remember when a DX/2 was "smokin'". Hell, I remember when the 386s 
rolled out and finally a certain operating system could actually work.

I don't think I'll care to admit to my first PC having an 8088 inside, 
with that comical "Turbo" button. Did anybody *not* have it on fast mode 
all the time? Oh yeah, we're paid by the hour, let's switch the computer 
to tedious mode...

Of course, I had my A3000 then, beat the crap out of an XT. Switch on to 
desktop in, like, twelve seconds. Hehe, people were sooo jealous 'cos 
the PCs (including an IBM system 60, IIRC) would take longer than that 
to complete POST. And, just to rub it in, in my 2Mb RAM I could run a 
slow but *working* software PC emulator. The office dipstick nearly died 
after a long tirade about how my "bbc micro" was old and not "industry 
standard" and useless. I patiently turned the monitor around. It was 
running FoxPro 2.x for DOS, the exact same bit of software used on the 
other office machines. He came over and tried it, having accused me of 
taking a screenshot of the PCs. So I told him, totally straight face, 
"it's amazing what you can do with a BBC micro, very versatile 
machines". He started spluttering about how it was, like, a decade old 
and how the hell... So I just shrugged and said he obviously grew up 
with a crappy ZX Spectrum, big mistake.

To this day, I think he noticed Acorn and the red keys and the 
all-in-one design and seriously thought a 32K 6502 was emulating a PC 
and running a hardcore DOS application...


Best wishes,

Rick.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...