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at high school we got taught CECIL and basic and touched upon a the other languages and there feild of usage. Also taught the history part as well. Had a 380z
by Zenst 14y ago
at high school we got taught CECIL and basic and touched upon a the other languages and there feild of usage. Also taught the history part as well. Had a 380z research machine, BBC micro in the final year and also access to a 2903 ICL mainframe running george over a 300buad acoustic coupler and then would take upto an hour to get a good connection. Sometime later computer studies got turned into a secratary skills on a computer and called ICT.
Logo was great and in some way we still have it at toy level with the various programable toys via mobile phones and let us not forget we still have bigtrax. Though Lego are doing things now we could only dream of as children. Computer back then also came with a programming language interface, nowadays that is a optional extra sadly and is akin to a generation knowing how to drive and how a engine worked so they could identify a fault and fix it to those that can just drive.
- meaty 14y agoNice - I remember the 380z. Had a bus which was a simple IDC ribbon cable, weighed a ton and sort of barely coped with CP/M.
- Zenst 14y agoYip they were well built. Apparently if you entered the front panel (ctrl+F iirc you got a hex debugger) you could single step thru the machine code, now if your did that for the graphic panel part you could blow the screen -- luckily this did not get learned from expereience.