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Who remembers waking into a store on the high street in Britain and seeing rows of different computer systems! Sinclair Spectrums, BBC Model B and so on! It w
by firecall 5y ago
Who remembers waking into a store on the high street in Britain and seeing rows of different computer systems!
Sinclair Spectrums, BBC Model B and so on!
It was glorious!
It was so exciting as a kid!
Going to each of them and writing 3 lines of basic to print my name infinitely!
A truely golden age of discovery!
- FearNotDaniel 5y agoRemember this well. Though my three line programs were a little more mischievous. When Boots the Chemist weirdly started selling computers I thought it was fun to go in on a Saturday afternoon and type: 10 PRINT "Boots is rubbish, shop at Dixons."; 20 GOTO 10 I thought I was a genius. Probably should have got a slimy career in adtech after that, but thankfully I didn't.
- 123pie123 5y agothe WHSmiths shops had some of their computers sound amplified through the cassette players a mischeivious program of 10 pause (big number) 20 beep 30 goto 20 it would sit there for ages until a key was pressed, then beep very loud when a person - who's very first touch of a computers keyboard, would seemly set an alarm off. the faces of the customers thinking they've broke the computer is still etched in my mind
- alexfoo 5y ago*FX 200,3 10 *MOTOR 1 20 *MOTOR 0 30 GOTO 10 And then leave the shop quickly as the BBC Micro's internal relay quickly destroys itself.