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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 ...... )
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.
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.
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?
I was working at one blue chip in the late 1980s where very little seemed to have changed in the interim. They were still using coding pads and punch cards, and had only recently decomissioned their paper tape streamer.
Seriously: my current client has a book called 'An Introduction to BASIC', second edition, by M R Eagle (1976)
This is the public sector, so perhaps it's to be expected.
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 was working at one blue chip in the late 1980s where very little seemed to have changed in the interim. They were still using coding pads and punch cards, and had only recently decomissioned their paper tape streamer.
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