![]() It's the reality of software: if you choose to run someone's software, and you choose to install updates, then those updates can break things and they get the right from you having chosen to do that. ![]() Removing features when you install an update doesn't, in fact, send anyone to jail. Re: the application will be removed on upgrade The local authorities were obviously big fans of tech, realising that it was the only way to recover from the ruinous unemployment levels that had emerged from the 1970's.Īmazing what a bit of forward thinking investment in the future does. Many hours burned on F16 Combat Pilot duels.Īll things considered I think I got pretty lucky having that variety of stuff. ![]() Much more entertainingly the chemistry lab picked up dozens of 8086 clones, which we made up our own null modem cables. Design & Technology got itself a shiny 486 in maybe 1993, though Windows 3.1 was ruined entirely by someone installing ALL the fonts from Corel Draw so the boot-time was ruinous and continuously swapping to disk. The secondary school was reasonably equipped the electronics and physics classrooms had BBC Masters (lovely GPIO interfaces!) Maths had a network of RM Nimbus dumb terminals, so we could do fun stuff in GW Basic. Nobody got any good at Virus, but there wasn't anyone in the building that didn't know how to play it. They were swapping to Archimedes 3000's more or less as I was leaving that place. The state primary school I had a Beeb model B or a Master in more or less every classroom from the mid 1980s. And as others have said, it could open almost anything - you could get useful clues from the opening bytes of a mystery file as to what it was infended to be - a sadly not infrequent occurrence with easily corrupted floppy disks. I valued Wordpad for its ability to leave simple formatted files alone, retaining formatting witbout adding anything unwanted. Later I had to teach myself to write all over again, to get rid of the illegibility caused by cursive.Īny hint of computers didn't appear until the later secondary school, wben a Physics teacher introduced us to binary addition and subtraction via a home made switch-&-light board. And struggling with the steel dip pens that went with them, while trying to learn cursive handwriting. Up to about age 12 our school desks still had china inkwells in them, and a pupil appointed Ink Monitor, charged with filling them with Stephens Blue-black Ink (why in god's name not Royal Blue Washable? Would have saved so much grief). ![]()
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