Old Computers

[Deleted member 473]

My first purchase was an Atari ST. I loved its assembly language. I wasted many happy hours changing the sector order on my floppies so they read and wrote faster. Plotting Mandelbrot sets. Writing programs for Math Spectrum. I even wrote a book with it, before we bought our first Windoze machine, which ruined xmas for my daughters by not running their game presents. (Bl%%dy Directx6.)

 

[Deleted member 473]

Computer nerds go nuts for an Acorn

Forget AI fridges and solar-powered TV remote controls, vintage tech is making a comeback. Nostalgia has fuelled demand for retro-computers that predate the int

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[EEPhil]

I can't really remember, were Acorns the ones that were similar to the BBC Micro?

 

[Black Hole]

Yes

 

[gomezz]

There were the company that were contracted by the BBC to make their computers. They later became ARM with the BBC lineage now referred to as Acorn Antiques.

 

[Black Hole]

We've been this way before, have we not (maybe not in this particular detail)? https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/old-computers.9963/

Shall we move posts 1980 onwards over there?

 

[Deleted member 473]

We've been this way before, have we not (maybe not in this particular detail)? https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/old-computers.9963/

Shall we move posts 1980 onwards over there?

Yeah, couldn't find the thread, sorry.

 

[EEPhil]

The only thing I remember about the BBC micro is that we used them as an intelligent terminal to a mainframe. We had some chip fitted that turned visual editing on the micro into line editing commands on the mainframe. Decce chip and Ecce line editor.