My first school computer
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My favourite moment was finding out that the BIOS passwords for all the RM Nimbus computers was 'RM' - thus letting us change the boot order and do all sorts of fun stuff - boot floppy and ramdisks for the win.
Also inserting an object to command.com in a Word document to get to the command prompt and then doing all sorts of fun stuff with net send and loading up games
Fun times
Also inserting an object to command.com in a Word document to get to the command prompt and then doing all sorts of fun stuff with net send and loading up games
Fun times
I couldn't tell you what it was but it was a green screen thing that had massive chunky keys, we had a colour monitor in the room as well and if you got on that early enough you could open paint and write ****, ****, *******, **** and other great things.
Does anyone remember the mechanical turtle with wheels that could be programmed to draw pictures with a marker? I swear to god I'm not on anything whilst I type this. We had a turtle connected to the BBC computer and had to program it to draw things.... I never did figure out how to make it self destruct.
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My school didn't have computers 
my first PC which was bought 'new' by my parents was a 486 sx33. IN 2001.
Salesmen have so much to answer for in my childhood
e: my best friend had Half Life on release day, while I was playing wolfenstien 3D, says it all really.
my first PC which was bought 'new' by my parents was a 486 sx33. IN 2001.Salesmen have so much to answer for in my childhood
e: my best friend had Half Life on release day, while I was playing wolfenstien 3D, says it all really.
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The Logo turtle
Maybe it was called that. All I remember is trying to get it to fail. For some reason he kept on going, drawing but I figured if I could get him to fail then I would understand how to get him going again
Probably the BBC Micro back in my first year at school in '90.
One thing that I remember playing on it was PODD
All that violence at the end!
Remember moving onto what I THINK were 386/486 based computers in the 2nd half of primary school, with a good memory or bringing in SimCity 2000 that I managed to warez from my uncle. The teachers weren't best pleased when I kept bringing more games in on floppy disks and installing them lol. Fun times!
One thing that I remember playing on it was PODD
All that violence at the end!
Remember moving onto what I THINK were 386/486 based computers in the 2nd half of primary school, with a good memory or bringing in SimCity 2000 that I managed to warez from my uncle. The teachers weren't best pleased when I kept bringing more games in on floppy disks and installing them lol. Fun times!
BBCa at Primary
Nimbus at Secondary.
I remember our English teacher/Head of Library Department showing us an oversize CDROM ( lazerdisc size?) type thing and him explaining 2 of them had an entire Encyclopaedia Britannica on..
We looked up "Sitting Bull" the Indian Chief on it, who had an uncanny resemblance to our Female German teacher. :Fun times.
Not sure what that computer was in the Library but it was pride and joy no one could go near it without permission.
Nimbus at Secondary.
I remember our English teacher/Head of Library Department showing us an oversize CDROM ( lazerdisc size?) type thing and him explaining 2 of them had an entire Encyclopaedia Britannica on..
We looked up "Sitting Bull" the Indian Chief on it, who had an uncanny resemblance to our Female German teacher. :Fun times.
Not sure what that computer was in the Library but it was pride and joy no one could go near it without permission.
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Funny for you, i had to change 641 workstation BIOS passwords in two days because of kids like you
went to secondary school between 1991 and 1996 and NEVER once used a computer, although I think the school had a small computer room.
wasn't my choice, it wasn't on the curriculum. i can say this with hindsight, but thinking how important computers are now and all those kids not even getting their hands on a computer. what a joke the government is. really bad foresight. i had to learn woodshop and cooking, french and german, but not how to use a PC.
luckily my parents had bought an Amiga at home so I got into computing that way.
wasn't my choice, it wasn't on the curriculum. i can say this with hindsight, but thinking how important computers are now and all those kids not even getting their hands on a computer. what a joke the government is. really bad foresight. i had to learn woodshop and cooking, french and german, but not how to use a PC.
luckily my parents had bought an Amiga at home so I got into computing that way.
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Computers were not really available when I left school in 1969, although NASA undoubtedly used something with the computing power of non smart mobile phone to land on the moon.
At college in 1977-8 we had a computer room filled with one computer that could use basic code input from a terminal.
At college in 1977-8 we had a computer room filled with one computer that could use basic code input from a terminal.
We only had one but I and many others never got to use it. I left in 1985 and computers were stll in their infancy back then.
Heck we were not allowed to use calculators back then unlike the kids nowadays.
The one computer I think was a BBC Micro but the school was always moaning and whining about lack of money so I guess that's why we never got more.
Heck we were not allowed to use calculators back then unlike the kids nowadays.
The one computer I think was a BBC Micro but the school was always moaning and whining about lack of money so I guess that's why we never got more.