BBC Micros used to teach programming in 2010

[earthpigg]

ha!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10951040

[beercz]

I remember the days .........

[PaulW2U]

I first had a Model B then bought a Master with a second processor. It actually did everything that I needed it to back then even though it was 32,000 times slower than the average PC of today.

[32,000 is what I heard. I can't be bothered to work it out.]

[chriswyatt]

We had them in my old primary school, I'm surprised it's only 32,000 times slower than a modern PC, I wouldn't have been surprised if it was more than that.

Most of the computers at my old school had boring educational programs on them but I remember a lot of the Win 3.1 computers had Zool on them, remember being quite excited when I found that game hidden in the filesystem somewhere. :)

[alexfish]

We had them in my old primary school, I'm surprised it's only 32,000 times slower than a modern PC, I wouldn't have been surprised if it was more than that.

Most of the computers at my old school had boring educational programs on them but I remember a lot of the Win 3.1 computers had Zool on them, remember being quite excited when I found that game hidden in the filesystem somewhere. :)


Poor sole Well at least they will learn that a computer is more than capable than just for
playing games on

Does any one know what the Specs of the BBC computer where and what the bits where
capable of , I will give marks out of 10 + a :KS if you get them all correct.

for those that are interested in games

http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/

Forgot to add . The next logical step from the BBC computer should have been based on linux. We are now 30 years behind In terms of computer Literacy:

Their again I still can't spell for toffy , must have bean somthing to do with mnemonics

[cpmman]

Poor sole Well at least they will learn that a computer is more than capable than just for
playing games on

Does any one know what the Specs of the BBC computer where and what the bits where
capable of , I will give marks out of 10 + a :KS if you get them all correct.

for those that are interested in games

http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/

BBC micro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro)

They taught things like the difference between sole and soul,where and were, avoiding repetition of than and using who rather than that to describe people.

[alexfish]

BBC micro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro)

They taught things like the difference between sole and soul,where and were, avoiding repetition of than and using who rather than that to describe people.

8 out 10

missed

"Their again I still can't spell for toffy , must have bean somthing to do with mnemonics"

There again , I still remember "mnemonics" ;)