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Yes! The BBC Micro came out just before I started primary school. Initially our school (200-300 pupils) had one, on a trolley, with a concept keyboard too ( htt
by parenthesis 8y ago
Yes! The BBC Micro came out just before I started primary school. Initially our school (200-300 pupils) had one, on a trolley, with a concept keyboard too ( http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/8bitadd/Concept.html http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/8bitadd/Concept.html ).
By the time I left primary school, we had three or four!
In primary one, I remember some very simple `cat and mouse' game.
Later on, a text adventure game, possibly something to do with a frog. And then Granny's Garden, and The Flowers of Crystal.
At some point, I got permission to basically mess around on one during some lunchtimes.
There is so much more I could say!
- CmdrKrool 8y agoLove that people are repeating the detail about the trolley. I too remember that almost as vividly as the computer itself :) Never saw a Concept Keyboard though, it looks both forward thinking and antiquated (reminiscent of the ZX81). But as it happens I read about an Amiga version of this keyboard just the other day. It was expensive: https://archive.org/details/amigaformatmagazine-026/page/n135 https://archive.org/details/amigaformatmagazine-026/page/n13...
- TomAnthony 8y agoYes, Granny's Garden! I remember there was a Part 2 for Granny's Garden, but it wasn't there when you did the default load key combo. You had to *CAT then CHAIN the second file. I recall being 7/8 years old and a student fetching me to go to the other classroom to load it for another class!