Those were the days

[OwlHoot]

The BBC Micro had a good feature, whereby holding down a key or something one could copy a section of the previous text line onto the current line. Obviously this can easily be done today with a mouse, and I forget exactly how it worked, but it seemed very useful and effective at the time.

[Churchill]

Nah, it were crap.

Based on what criteria?

Always remember my little fat chum, a bad workman blames his tools!

[threaded]

Based on what criteria?

Always remember my little fat chum, a bad workman blames his tools!

On the criteria that there was little quality control in the manufacturing process so approx 80% came of the line with one fault or another, IIRC the half memory models were just the same as full memory models but with faulty memory chips, nice...

Oh, and I never liked the Z80 processor, think it is gay.

[bobhope]

It's interesting that it mentions that most programmers of today were inspired by the Speccie (or similar) and the the UK has a vibrant software development industry as a result.

I wonder if that will be the case in a decade's or 2 time, when a generation that never had to bother with writing their own software (in assembly to boot) will be programmers.

[BrilloPad]

I remember going to the smithsonian in Washington and seeing a VAX2 used for space shuttles. And I remembered that coming out - made me feel very old.

And now I have more power in my mobile phone(probably)

[Churchill]

On the criteria that there was little quality control in the manufacturing process so approx 80% came of the line with one fault or another, IIRC the half memory models were just the same as full memory models but with faulty memory chips, nice...

Oh, and I never liked the Z80 processor, think it is gay.

Ok, on the quality front I concur. The ULA was made by Ferranti and I made a few quid fitting new ones to mates speccies.

However, without access to low cost(relatively) computer hardware a lot of us wouldn't be the expert developers that we are now. It filled a niche!

As for the Z80 being "gay" well I must admit that I prefer memory mapped I/O and anything more than 3 registers leads to sloppy programming!!!

Churchill - In "Yes I know technically the 6502 had more than 3" mode!

[threaded]

Supposedly there is more processing power in the seat of one of my cars than what was used to put a man on the moon. Nice and comfy seat like.

[Churchill]

Supposedly there is more processing power in the seat of one of my cars than what was used to put a man on the moon. Nice and comfy seat like.

On the subject of cars I was playing with a Carrera 4 on Friday. Bright Yellow and very, very quick. A bit cramped in the footwell but I may just be buying it as a toy.

Peoples thoughts?

[threaded]

On the subject of cars I was playing with a Carrera 4 on Friday. Bright Yellow and very, very quick. A bit cramped in the footwell but I may just be buying it as a toy.

Peoples thoughts?

You can get a 2nd hand Gallardo with just a little more than delivery miles, has better leg room, and people won't think you're gay when you drive by.

[Churchill]

You can get a 2nd hand Gallardo with just a little more than delivery miles, has better leg room, and people won't think you're gay when you drive by.

Not for £35k...