My first school computer

ShakenNstirred said:
no computers when I was at school lol
calculators where only just arriving then :D
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Sounds similar to mine. My school bought it's first machine in 1979, a Research Machine 380Z - there's one in the Science Museum. It cost £2000, as a time when £750 would buy you a pretty good new car.
 
I think the first time I used a computer at school was in year 6 (1996) An Acorn that had some circus maths/puzzle game on it. It was actually pretty good!

I had used an Amiga 500+ since 1992 (7th birthday present) so the Acorn was pretty crap. No computers were used in school really apart from electronics when we used a simple program to make a remote control car move - or going to the library, which only geeks did

Then in year 10 and 11 (2000/2001) used a BBC in 'IT'!!

The joy of public school in Doncaster
 
Halfmad said:
BBC Micro, usually got 20mins on Granny's Garden every fortnight but as we had no way to save a game it was the same 20 minutes of play each two weeks..
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That was possibly one of the most retarded games ever invented... some of it literally made no sense whatsoever - god knows what they expected it to teach kids. We had some ice cream business game which was at least semi-educational for about one or two lessons.... and the programming the turtle thing..

We had two rooms full of BBC B computers at secondary school. Part way through secondary school they finally decided to upgrade the computers but switched to the Acorn Archimedes (this was about the time Windows 95 had just been released...) we all thought this was fairly retarded on the part of the IT teacher and sure enough within about a year they got rid of the two rooms full of Acorn's and replaced them all with PCs. I think the Physics dept had got its own suite of PCs too at the time the IT dept decided to go for its upgrade from BBC Bs to Archimedes....
 
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