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# ha ha ha
we used to play that on the old 486 computers at school :D
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:20, archived)
# 486!
The school had two computers the year I left, one Commodore Pet, and a BBC B...

Flaming hell, get me my bathchair, would you?
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:23, archived)
# As I left secondary school, Pentium's were just being released
and we still had a mixture of Archimedes and BBC Masters.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:28, archived)
# the BBC at our school was wheeled
around from classroom to classroom with a travel rug over it! those were the days...
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:28, archived)
# maybe they were 386s
... I remember at primary school I used to be responsible for the computer... and that was a BBC Micro.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:30, archived)
# We liked to refer to it as
'The Machine for playing Planetoid on"


;-)
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:31, archived)
# I was reponsible for the stick insects
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:33, archived)
# We had 2 computers at school when I left
and there was no class teaching anything about them. We had to join the 'computer club' Which comprised of me, 4 mates and an odd Russian girl plus the teacher who bought our computers which were...
wait for it...

Commodore Pet 4s

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:41, archived)
# We had PETs at school
They were fucking heavy. We had to carry them from the computer lab to the computer classroom 'cos the teacher was a fat lazy cunt who taught us nothing about computers and failed us all cos we programmed our shit programs in BASIC on ZX Spectrums and C64s.

But I'm not bitter.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:58, archived)
# I'm not bitter.
I'm probably a bit older than you and computers were just some odd calculator back then. What it did do was introduce me to BASIC and also to Commodore and so my lifelong love affair with all things AMIGA.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:02, archived)