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| From | Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.sinclair |
| Subject | Re: The BBC Micro is crap |
| Date | 2019-11-20 10:17 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <qr33to$100c$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <7sh5tedd8kmr4phrv6s607pdg6ejhh1iko@4ax.com> <qqut23$34t$1@dont-email.me> <cak7tepeov3rkv18e9t0875pcg6goo54v5@4ax.com> |
OK. I'll bite. ;-) > Econet for anything else wasn't of any use to schools. So myself and colleagues were living in a dream for a decade. > I've been in schools pretty much all my life and only know of one > where Econet ever happened and that was never used Your ignorance of what was actually happening is staggering, then. > as when they connected it up it was used solely to remotely call the > teacher a dick. Thousands of pupils and never any abuse. It is like all networks, it needs managing. > Networking was important, but Econet itself was effectively a dead > end Well, yes, but when Ethernet systems were horrendously expensive and tricky to set up with co-ax cabling, Econet was very effective, cheap and simple. > the Beebs were used for just 1) Granny's Garden, and 2) Logo. Ignorance is bliss. > no schools bought Spectrums Fewer, true, but they were used and networked, sort of. However, they soon became too limiting, whereas the Beeb was still very useful into the mid 90s. My presence here should tell you that I am a Spectrum devotee, but my professional life was centered around Acorn machines.
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