My first school computer

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Used to love computer class with the RM Nimbus. Sitting there all lesson with that chat thingybob, firing all sorts of messages around the class.

This was in 1991. By my last year in 1996, we had moved on to Pentium 166's. Much better, but not quite the same appeal as the old Nimbus.

 
Mine :eek:

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Commodore Pet in my day. Everyone wanted to play space invaders on it. I wanted a ZX Spectrum, but my folks couldn't afford one as they were saving to buy a bigger house.
 
I always remember the "tortoise" robot that we would use at school. You would program a route for it to take and the robot would begin to move. Was great.
 
Spook187 said:
Mine :eek:

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Eizo CRTs used to be incredible. I remember having a 21" flat screen CRT for my first gaming rig, picked it up for a song at £5 on eBay. 100Hz refresh rate, 1600x1200 resolution, VGA BNC. Still wipes the floor with my £1k Dell. :/

Anyhoo, my first school computer was made by Acorn. Proprietary OS. Beyond obsolescence by the time I used one. Our school then spent a fortune upgrading to horrific machines with Windows ME. IT wasn't a particularly high priority on the budget...
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BBC here as well, we had a classroom full of them in 1988

The Acorn Archimedes was the 16-bit power house that we only had one of in the corner that the only thing anyone ever did with was play Zarch!

 
My secondary school had 2 computer labs, one full of Beebs and the other with 386s. That was early 1990s.

At home, had my own second-hand Beeb in 1986 plus a second-hand 386 in the mid-90s. Finally in 1999, I moved onto a PII 350MHz which was more contemporary and I've remained contemporary ever since.
 
Think mine was the Nimbus.

I always used to play the original snake where you collected the numbers and this taxi game. Until the teacher came in and told us to turn it off lol.
 
BBC Micro at Primary then RM Numbus at secondary.

I just used the computer room at lunchtime to play Repton. :D

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Just remembered, we had one BBC Micro at Secondary which was the Repton gaming machine.


Loved that game.
 
My first school computer was a network of 480Z, but then they upgraded to a cutting edge setup of a roomful of PCs with the brand new 286 CPU shortly before I started my A levels. Awesome power! Which we needed for our crappy inefficient programming :)

My first computer, though, was a ZX-81 complete with the wobbly 16KB memory expansion pack. Then a ZX Spectrum shortly after release because it had colour (and colour clash, which most of you probably won't even have heard of), sound (one-channel bleeping) and fantastic high resolution graphics (256x192). I was awed when I saw one running in Woolworths, so much so that I spent a summer holiday picking runner beans to save up to buy one. £180 was a hell of a lot of money to a 13 year old in 1982.
 
BBC Micro for me. Loved those things. :)
robgmun said:
BBC here as well, we had a classroom full of them in 1988

The Acorn Archimedes was the 16-bit power house that we only had one of in the corner that the only thing anyone ever did with was play Zarch!

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:eek: I remember that game. Flipping brilliant. Is is still available in some form do you know? :)
 
Our first school computer was a zx81, surely there must be others that were in on that before the bbc came about.

Bad timing though in truth... the old bbc had faded out in my first year of secondary school.

I think there was 'one' acorn arc in the design/engineering class/room.

There wasn't a single computer to use in the entire course of my secondary education (86/91). I allways look back on that as being shocking, unreal.
 
BBC Microcomputer at high school, then Acorn Archimedes at College. At that time I learned about the RISC architecture and the fetch and execute cycle. We were also forced to learn COBOL which I hated. On that note I never did programming. I was **** hot at hardware mind :)
 
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