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Yeah my “internet” access was using Mini Office 2 on the CPC to make a modem connection to another computer and that computer had internet access. Later the Num
by mattl 1y ago
Yeah my “internet” access was using Mini Office 2 on the CPC to make a modem connection to another computer and that computer had internet access. Later the Numbus machines were replaced with 486 SX 25 machines from RM (via the UK supermarket Tesco’s computers for schools program, previously they’d been supplying Acorn computers) which made things a little easier.
I would later write it in Protext on the CPC and copy it to the floppy disk and IIRC remove a few control characters from the file before uploading it from one of the 486 machines.
Most of the Nimbus and 486 machines were diskless and floppy driveless. Reserving one with a floppy drive was a crapshoot. Eventually one machine in the school was secretly outfitted with a small hard disk someone got their hands on from elsewhere.
For the longest time I had never seen the web outside of a text browser, despite having a website (really a single page for a long time)