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From: D.M. Procida on 11 Oct 2009 09:47 jonny <jonny(a)dontmailme.org> wrote: > The Personal Computer handbook price list (September 1983) Is that the one with the brown vinyl cover? I had that! Daniele
From: Tim Gowen on 11 Oct 2009 10:10 Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > Got to say that seems like a change of history too - not many > programmers arose from that era? -Everyone- who had a home machine in > 1982/1986 knew at least -some- coding. Yeah but how many people in their thirties now, who were doing little bits of programming when they were 10-15, can actually still remember that it's better to use for...next loops than GOTO statements! Unless they're still in the business! Tim -- Tim Gowen
From: David Kennedy on 11 Oct 2009 10:10 Woody wrote: > jonny <jonny(a)dontmailme.org> wrote: > >> Jim wrote: >> >>>> One thing that struck me was that the Apple ][ was launched some time >>>> before the start of the story, and was still going strong after it ended >>>> - and probably was hardly affected by the events in the story. >>> I think the Apple ][ didn't make big inroads into the UK home computer >>> scene as it was very expensive. >> The Personal Computer handbook price list (September 1983) >> >> Apple //e �925 (Alone) �1,300 (Starter Pack - disk drive+controller >> card, mono monitor+stand, 80-column card) >> >> Acorn/BBC (Model A) �300 (Model B) �400 (no mention of Electron) > > The electron was just over �200 (afaicr, �215). I bought one, one of the > first ones, and then took it back as I decided I wanted a BBC model b, > as all the reviews I read were 'it does x, unlike the bbc that does x & > y' etc. > > I really did love the BBC, it was a great machine > I ended up with one of these <http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/first700.htm> I often wondered if I should have gone with the BBC... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Tim Gowen on 11 Oct 2009 10:28 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > <http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/first700.htm> > Wow, 64K?! -- Tim Gowen
From: Steve Firth on 11 Oct 2009 11:09
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > On 2009-10-11 12:19:34 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said: > > > Quite often (as in "Life on > > Mars" and its sequels) directors seem to get portrayal of that period > > horribly wrong. Well, not just that period, any decade of which I have > > living memory. > > RADALand. BBC Drama (sorry Peter) tend to have a wonderful knack of > making any period in history look and sound like any other period in > history, with the exception that the morals will always be those of the > present day. Ah yes, that tends to happen with just about anything and in most countries. I found the Italian drama La meglio giovent� (The Best of Youth) to be a fairly good version of the events of the 70s and 80s in Italy. But some things grated, the corners were knocked off everything with the brutality and corruption of the police at that time airbrushed over, smoking was apparently unknown at that time and the treatment of the mentally ill was shown to be sympathetic and well ordered incorporating all the current advances in attitudes towards therapy. Which was odd, since being alive and working in Italy at the time, my memory is of the levels of graft, the casual public brutality shown by the (various) police squads, the impossibility of getting through any meeting of more than three people without the room becoming obscured by smoke (still a problem to this day in Italy) and the fact that the nuns who seemed to form the majority of nursing care for patients with mental problems treated their charges in appaling ways. > ITV Drama do the same, except the morals are those of the 19th century > and everything looks like a scene from a postcard or chocolate box. Ee up master, ye'll be getting back to that stock broking business on the Inter City 125 will ye? <tugs forelock> |