Yeah he can kill two birds with one stone lol. If he ever gets sick of typing he can always try and make his way to the nearest pond and do some fishing lol.
I was in the very last generation to use BBC Micros at school, they replaced them with crappy Windows machines and switched from teaching us how to program to teaching us how to write a letter on MS Word....WTF?! What a load of bullshit.
Ident Showcase I was about 14 when my secondary school got in their BBC micro's but by that time I was fully geek+ already soaked in the computer technological emergency of the early 1980s and as such owned various micros and learned how to program them as most school-boys did who were interested, but by the time my school got hold of them their lessons for me were too basic (pun intended) so I skipped them and eventually did a YTS in computer programming at 16 at my local college, they all used BBC micros and then the IBM PC and some others but we had to make 'database' programs, always ruddy database programs, the BBC micro's were used for fun, I made a few games, but by 18yrs old wine woman & song took me away from geek-ville and roughed me up a bit... today I'm still that 14 yr old boy in front of his mums rented Phillips TV set writing useless pap in the glow of my computer screen.
The ones who got parented by the following paradigm of computers at the time, which boils down to being yet another office worker, rather than a programmer.
With a strong understanding of how that 40 year old machine operated its fairly simple to see the iPad as an evolutionarily progression, not a revolutionary one. They are pretty much the same, only the “scale” is different. It wouldn’t have been that big a leap to conclude that we’d have iPads 40 years hence. I’d say actually that progress has been slower than some folk anticipated, based on progress in the 20 years leading up to 40 years ago, which was astonishing.
I'm glad that sail manufacturing company replaced their antique Univac computer with a Commodore CBM 8032. The savings in electricity, for one month alone, paid for the Commodore, disk drives and printer.
Wow video output was through Coaxial cable? Watching the videos that are 80s classic ones on your page make me sad a bit because personal computing could have been used for such just and noble and even intellectual causes. Yet weve turned it into porn and facebook wankery.
+The Free Software Foundation Computing Videos People thought pretty much the same back in the day. As you can tell from the intro, this series was pretty much only produced because the popular opinion was that home computers were only good for playing games.
Those 80s tech-show intros are simply amazing!
I remember watching shows like this when I was about 5 years old.
Am stun about that dissabled guy doing everything with his head and computer, just mind blowing, my respect goes to him.
B
Yeah he can kill two birds with one stone lol. If he ever gets sick of typing he can always try and make his way to the nearest pond and do some fishing lol.
@Richy-J not an actor.
There is a tetraplegic man, an actor in a drama series called 'Press Gang' (filmed 1988, shown 1989), using a slightly evolved version.
Can't remember his name but there was a guy on UA-cam who did Lets Plays of Guild Wars 2 who had no arms or legs. He was also really good at PvP.
I was in the very last generation to use BBC Micros at school, they replaced them with crappy Windows machines and switched from teaching us how to program to teaching us how to write a letter on MS Word....WTF?! What a load of bullshit.
Ident Showcase
I was about 14 when my secondary school got in their BBC micro's but by that time I was fully geek+ already soaked in the computer technological emergency of the early 1980s and as such owned various micros and learned how to program them as most school-boys did who were interested, but by the time my school got hold of them their lessons for me were too basic (pun intended) so I skipped them and eventually did a YTS in computer programming at 16 at my local college, they all used BBC micros and then the IBM PC and some others but we had to make 'database' programs, always ruddy database programs, the BBC micro's were used for fun, I made a few games, but by 18yrs old wine woman & song took me away from geek-ville and roughed me up a bit... today I'm still that 14 yr old boy in front of his mums rented Phillips TV set writing useless pap in the glow of my computer screen.
The ones who got parented by the following paradigm of computers at the time, which boils down to being yet another office worker, rather than a programmer.
WOW this was my world!! So good to find this again. Thankyou
He gives such a clear description of how the hardware works.
Wow. I remember watching this originally. If I could have seem my iPad then I would have thought it was science fiction.
With a strong understanding of how that 40 year old machine operated its fairly simple to see the iPad as an evolutionarily progression, not a revolutionary one. They are pretty much the same, only the “scale” is different. It wouldn’t have been that big a leap to conclude that we’d have iPads 40 years hence. I’d say actually that progress has been slower than some folk anticipated, based on progress in the 20 years leading up to 40 years ago, which was astonishing.
I'm glad that sail manufacturing company replaced their antique Univac computer with a Commodore CBM 8032. The savings in electricity, for one month alone, paid for the Commodore, disk drives and printer.
I continue my education, watch these videos, go on Amazon and eBay, in one day!
Talks about looking after the floppy disc, and then puts it on top of a big magnet..
16k of memory! My phone is not the best but it still has the equivalent of 128,000,000kb of memory!
10:10 sup kraftwerk
Will computers ever catch on??
Nah
Wow video output was through Coaxial cable? Watching the videos that are 80s classic ones on your page make me sad a bit because personal computing could have been used for such just and noble and even intellectual causes. Yet weve turned it into porn and facebook wankery.
+The Free Software Foundation Computing Videos People thought pretty much the same back in the day. As you can tell from the intro, this series was pretty much only produced because the popular opinion was that home computers were only good for playing games.
Don't forget the cat videos!
@@Muzer0 word processing was main use.
can a bbc micro emulate a Dragon 32?
205 pounds , that’s a lot of weight to be carrying.
" central prosing unit"
"word prosing program"