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Re: The BBC Micro is crap

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:15:00 +0000 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Duncan Snowden:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:05:11 +0000
> deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > True, but what use was it in school? Genuine question. What was it
> > actually used for? Lucky schools had maybe one BBC per room, perhaps
> > maybe only a handful across the whole school. My own primary had two,
> > one in a "learning room" and one on a trolley. Another primary I went
> > to had a "computer room" with four BBCs in it but none elsewhere. Not
> > much scope to network them.
> 
> My experience is a lot more limited, but I have to say that the school
> I went to, being a bit posh, had 12-15 BBCs in one room (and a few more
> dotted about the place), but no Econet.

My junior school had one BBC Micro with a printer.  There was a second
one (which may have had a printer, not sure) in the Infant bit of the
school, which was conveniently located, if my memory serves me
correctly, in the corridor linking the junior and infant parts of the
school.

Secondary school had loads of BBC Micros, which quite quickly were
mostly replaced with Acorn Archimedes and then RISC PCs.  The teacher
in charge of IT was an Acorn fan.  He left the same year as me as the
school was apparently switching over to using PCs (when I left there
were about three in the entire school, two of which were in the
library).  We had loads of Acorns but no Econet.  The school obviously
didn't see any need for it and spent the budget on hard drives, extra
memory, printers, and newer/more computers.

> (We had quite a few Commodore PETs, too. I was about to say I'd
> love to know what happened to those, but on reflection I'm not sure I
> do. Probably ended up in a skip.)

Probably best not to know.  We had an entire cupboard of old
computers, including an RM380Z, a BBC Micro (one of the older or
not as good ones) and a ZX81.  We had them all set up in the study
room for a while for some reason, but I honestly can't remember what
else was there.  The ZX81 wasn't, because the last I saw of that was
it being waved around in assembly and then it mysteriously was never
seen again.

I suspect all these ended up in a skip along with all the Acorns. 
Hopefully not though.

Chris


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The BBC Micro is crap deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2019-11-18 16:43 +0000
  Re: The BBC Micro is crap Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2019-11-18 19:34 +0000
  Re: The BBC Micro is crap Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2019-11-18 19:56 +0000
    Re: The BBC Micro is crap deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2019-11-19 11:31 +0000
      Re: The BBC Micro is crap Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2019-11-20 10:17 +0000
        Re: The BBC Micro is crap deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2019-11-20 14:05 +0000
          Re: The BBC Micro is crap Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2019-11-20 15:15 +0000
            Re: The BBC Micro is crap "Chris" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2019-12-30 00:30 +0000
              Re: The BBC Micro is crap Lee Osborne <losborne74@gmail.com> - 2020-01-16 04:04 -0800

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