Re: Computers and personalities

From	druck <news@druck.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Computers and personalities
Date	2015-09-13 12:02 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05/09/2015 15:02, James Harris wrote:
> Machines were awful at the time. All of them I remember had serious
> limitations. For example,
>
> * The Commodore Pet's Basic allowed only single-line functions. Its
> graphics were all blocks that you had to put together (and they didn't
> always juxtapose as they should have).
>
> * The ZX Spectrum's screen had hi-res graphics but the attributes
> covered an 8x8 square so you had to account for that.
>
> * One machine (I think a Nascom 2 but am not sure) refreshed the screen
> at 60 Hz and that could play havoc with a monitor run on 50 Hz mains. I
> remember one screen wobble so bad that it quickly felt like your eyes
> were being fried!

You obviously didn't use the BBC Micro, fast, great graphics, lots of 
I/O. I used all the way from school and then in industry for years. You 
had to know how to code efficiently, but it could still running rings 
around the new 80286 PC with EGA graphics, they thought could replace it.

 > No one, I think, seriously wants to go back to those days.

I would in a heartbeat.

---druck

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Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 11:13 +0100
  Re: Computers and personalities mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-04 17:42 +0100
    Re: Computers and personalities The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-05 07:33 +0100
      Re: Computers and personalities David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-05 11:43 +0100
        Re: Computers and personalities Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2015-09-05 12:06 +0100
        Re: Computers and personalities Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-05 14:37 +0100
        Re: Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 14:45 +0100
    Re: Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 14:41 +0100
    Re: Computers and personalities "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 15:02 +0100
      Re: Computers and personalities Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-05 15:46 +0000
      Re: Computers and personalities druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-13 12:02 +0100

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