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Title: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 19:44:32
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/content/galeri/yeni/goster.asp?prm=0,7055475&id=16&galeriid=3660#galeriStart

things have changed ..
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 30 January 2009, 19:49:05
it was BBC micro's and Archimedes (Acorn) that we had in school, oh and the very first MAC.   Ill just go get my pension now......  :-X
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 19:52:39
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it was BBC micro's and Archimedes (Acorn) that we had in school, oh and the very first MAC.   Ill just go get my pension now......  :-X

 :y :y
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: Andyb on 30 January 2009, 19:59:07
what about the first ones for the public  was it the zx and then the spectrum
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: Debs. on 30 January 2009, 20:01:42
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it was BBC micro's and Archimedes (Acorn) that we had in school, oh and the very first MAC.   Ill just go get my pension now......  :-X

We had Charles Babbage`s 'difference engine' as our school computer; yes, I`m 'that' old! ;D
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 20:02:44
mmm..not sure what they are..I used some historical models but they were different..
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: nick v6 on 30 January 2009, 20:03:23
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what about the first ones for the public  was it the zx and then the spectrum

the spectrum was a zx
i had 3 of them
and the old comadore 64

plus an old atari
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: HolyCount on 30 January 2009, 20:04:09
Can't remember what ours was called ( in polite company), but it was shared between several schools, came in two tiers on a trolley and could only, add, subtract and multiply --- oh and spat the answer out on a punch card!
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: Bandit127 on 30 January 2009, 20:05:01
Times sure have changed.

At that age, we had one teletype to share for the whole school. The punched paper tape used to be sent off to the local Unigate dairy to be run on their mainframe. The paper output would come back 2 weeks later.

What a way to debug code!

I am 46 BTW.

A Teletype:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ASR-33_2.jpg
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 30 January 2009, 20:07:37
I still have my commodore Amiga A600, works perfect still.

Also have nearly every retro gaming console made, have boxes and boxes of them and their games.  ;D
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 20:12:07
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I still have my commodore Amiga A600, works perfect still.

Also have nearly every retro gaming console made, have boxes and boxes of them and their games.  ;D

these machines were a legend at the time.. :y
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: nick v6 on 30 January 2009, 20:12:14
do you remember the games that had to load off cassette tapes
with those dreadful sounds
and the flashing lines around the screen that use to put kids with epilepsy in hospital
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 30 January 2009, 20:12:49
thats the spectrum lol
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 20:13:30
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Times sure have changed.

At that age, we had one teletype to share for the whole school. The punched paper tape used to be sent off to the local Unigate dairy to be run on their mainframe. The paper output would come back 2 weeks later.

What a way to debug code!

I am 46 BTW.

I have seen programmiing with punch cards.. But obviously the program codes were not like today.. otherwise you need an army ;D
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 20:15:29
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do you remember the games that had to load off cassette tapes
with those dreadful sounds
and the flashing lines around the screen that use to put kids with epilepsy in hospital

 ;D

been there, done that.. ;D

I remember I lost many programmes with those tapes.. :-/
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 20:18:18
the first IBM PC that my department buy was 8000 $..

with some 256 Kb memory 5 mb hard disk and a 8088 cpu..

everybody was working on it with 2 hr appointments ;D

and was forbidden to have more than 4 hrs of work in a week :-?

and a CGA screen..
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 30 January 2009, 20:24:46
My first pc was an amstrad pc1512, 512k mem and 10MB hard drive, CGA screen, and because it was an XT machine it was incompatible with IBM's grrrrrr
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 30 January 2009, 20:30:24
as 4 hrs was not enough for me.. I work in some other places that have no hard disk with hercules screens..

and to compile any code I needed to swap floppies , one for code , one for complier and again swap to save  >:(
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: LaserLance on 30 January 2009, 20:35:20
Is it me or am i seeing a opitical illussion .... picture n07 is looking rather smug with himself over his tax return,but it looks like hes getting the wood over it  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 30 January 2009, 20:39:03
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Is it me or am i seeing a opitical illussion .... picture n07 is looking rather smug with himself over his tax return,but it looks like hes getting the wood over it  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

why......how.. why did you even look there??  :D :D
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: jerry on 30 January 2009, 20:40:18
Must be showing my age, but we never had computers at school, but I did have a Log book and Slide rule!!First work computer I ever dealt with was a System 25 which in the 80s was pretty state of the art and only people like govt depts and m&S had them. Bloody thing was about 3ftx2ftx2ft and it sat above a backup of the same size-but I tell you one thing, slow as it was , the info it provided us was as good as if not better than systems we use now!(or maybe we just had better programmers then!).As for gamers, used to have the old Atari tennis game that you could play on the telly!!Liitleun, on the otherhand, has a Vsmile, ps2, Wii and Nintendo Ds.
                                                            jerry :)
Title: Re: some time ago..
Post by: LaserLance on 30 January 2009, 20:44:28
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Is it me or am i seeing a opitical illussion .... picture n07 is looking rather smug with himself over his tax return,but it looks like hes getting the wood over it  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

why......how.. why did you even look there??  :D :D
it was the stupid sh*t eating grin that he had on his face ,then i looked again and thought NO that cant be right  :-[ :-[ :-[