Pretty Good New Guide for Dummies

[Bagpuss]

Memories came flooding back when I saw this picture.

In 1976 I did an O-Level in Computer Studies and we were actually recommended to get this book as it provided a good overview.

I thought computer studies didnt make it into the curriculum until the early 80s?
ALthough I never studied it, the school used the acorn BBC computers. What did they have in the 70s?

[hyperD]

Still got one of those Bagpuss - with the 4 disk external floppy thingy. And it still works. Didn't get the Winchester HD.

[ControlG]

I thought computer studies didnt make it into the curriculum until the early 80s?

In 1976 my school linked up with a local technical college where they had one computer (Data Nova General). A small group (15) were given the chance to leave the school for one afternoon per week and visit the college to do Computer Studies.

Programming in BASIC via teletypes or one VDU.

[SupremeSpod]

In 1976 my school linked up with a local technical college where they had one computer (Data Nova General). A small group (15) were given the chance to leave the school for one afternoon per week and visit the college to do Computer Studies.

Programming in BASIC via teletypes or one VDU.

Hmmm, ControlG, that rings a bell...

[WageSlave]

At my school, we had the mighty RM Nimbus 186.



Only the dumb kids were allowed to use them, as they could draw colourful shapes on them. Needless to say, I spent many a happy hour there

[hattra]

Let's see - in 1971, our school had a PDP 8e, with 4k of memory, 4 teletypes and a paper tape reader. You had to set the first 16 bytes of the bootstrap manually, through the front panel switches, then it loaded the OS from paper tape (about an hour on the teletypes, so a system crash was a real bummer - then we got the optical tape reader )

IIRC it was programmed in a language called FOCAL - I think I've still got tthe manual in the loft ...... )