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Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 14:14,
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THAT's what my computer needs ... a steering wheel! :O*looks for USB peripherals on Amazon*
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 14:18,
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That's more for games ... I was after something to replace the scroll wheel on my mouse.
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 14:28,
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Found the perfect one!
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 14:55,
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I've only ever visited the Science Museum onceand that was in about 91/92 - their computing through history section actually ended with stuff like that as 'computing of today' It hadn't been updated in 15 years! I hope it has now though
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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something.,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 15:04,
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Revised last year to include 'modern' computers all the way up to 1992
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 15:10,
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hehethose new-fangled 286s!
( Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something.,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 15:15,
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I still have yet to figure out what is was we used to use at school (circa 1996).In one room we had crappy old things, and in the other were the fancy-pants new RM Nimbus machines running Windows 3.1
Hardly ever allowed to touch the newer ones, so we spent most of our lessons using the old DOS-based things. There was a Maths-based games menu called 'Smile', plus a command-based drawing program called Logo, which could be linked to a plotter or a turtle. The one thing we all liked was a text adventure called "L'Adventure". It's virtually impossible to find information about it on t'interweb, and my old school refuses to answer repeated requests for information about their old kit :(
Anyone else familiar with any of these programs?
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(Hardly ever allowed to touch the newer ones, so we spent most of our lessons using the old DOS-based things. There was a Maths-based games menu called 'Smile', plus a command-based drawing program called Logo, which could be linked to a plotter or a turtle. The one thing we all liked was a text adventure called "L'Adventure". It's virtually impossible to find information about it on t'interweb, and my old school refuses to answer repeated requests for information about their old kit :(
Anyone else familiar with any of these programs?
/tl;dr
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 15:28,
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I used Logo on a BBC B and a BBC Masterthen used something similar on an Archimedes.
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M3rx likes the Asian ladies,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 16:23,
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The machines were probably one of these.They looked like squashed old-fashioned TV sets, with brown and beige casings.
Cheers for that, will do more research ...
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 16:34,
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So, you're not sure if they were actually DOS based? (Acorns wouldn't have DOS.)Was "L'Adventure" actually anything to do with French? If so, it ought to be "L'aventure". If not, perhaps this: L - A Mathemagical Adventure?
Looking like a squashed TV set, though, implies an integrated monitor. There weren't too many computers like that. Other than the early Apple Macs (which I assume you'd remember) the only one I can think of is the Commodore Pet. Perhaps the Acorn Cambridge workstation?
This google books result (Just to continue the research overkill) says that SMILE stood for Secondary Maths Individualised Learning Experiment and was for the 480Z, which incidentally is one of the two computers that ran that "L" game. So I bet it was that.
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Thu 24 Feb 2011, 16:37,
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Looking like a squashed TV set, though, implies an integrated monitor. There weren't too many computers like that. Other than the early Apple Macs (which I assume you'd remember) the only one I can think of is the Commodore Pet. Perhaps the Acorn Cambridge workstation?
This google books result (Just to continue the research overkill) says that SMILE stood for Secondary Maths Individualised Learning Experiment and was for the 480Z, which incidentally is one of the two computers that ran that "L" game. So I bet it was that.
We have this book at work.....It speaks the truth.
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Smithlick is often seen at the bottom of threads,
Thu 24 Feb 2011, 15:50,
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