The Beeb blowing their own trumpet

[chef]

dunno what advanced computers you were using but my spectrum 128k took forever to load Manic Miner via a tape player that obviously thought it was a modem.

[sasguru]

ZX81
Spectrum
Commodore 64 (remember peeking and poking?)
Atari somefink or other
Sinclair QL


Halcyon days indeed!
Wish I'd kept them ....
If only the idiot Gates hadn't come along and ruined everything with his boring PCs and bloatware, IT would still be interesting.

[interested]

I had a BBC Model B. Elite.

Me too, must have spent about a year trying to get to 'Elite' - I think I only managed 'Deadly'

[DimPrawn]

ZX81
Spectrum
Acorn Atom
Atari 800XL (with "happy" chip)

PC

[EternalOptimist]

Me too, must have spent about a year trying to get to 'Elite' - I think I only managed 'Deadly'

I only got to deadly after abandoning my joystick, and relearning how to play using the keyboard. Never did make it to Elite

[Platypus]

But that and that cr@p platform game with the bird and the eggs was the only game you could get on the thing.

Rubbish there were loads of games for BBC B

[Platypus]

When schools were teaching kids with an Archimedes, other countries were using PC's i.e. what was being used in the real world.

Yes, but when the BBC B came out, the PC (earliest version) was very very expensive in comparison. The model B did more (e.g. had graphics), and was more affordable.

The PC hadn't caught on big-time in 1982. The Commodore PET probably had more market penetration than the PC in those days.

[Platypus]

dunno what advanced computers you were using but my spectrum 128k took forever to load Manic Miner via a tape player that obviously thought it was a modem.

The BBC had a disk operating system, called ... DOS !

[Churchill]

Commodore 64 (remember peeking and poking?)

You bloody had to. The C64 Basic was 5HITE!

[Churchill]

The BBC had a disk operating system, called ... DOS !

DFS - Shirley?