mirrorbird (21:51:58)
(always with that cubical monitor and 5.25" drive)

mirrorbird (21:51:33)
looks like this https://artsandculture.google.com

mirrorbird (21:49:43)
i had the Speech synthesiser chip. * SAY HELLO HOW AR YU

mirrorbird (21:49:29)
very "extensible", you could plug a lot of things into it. 1980s plug'n'play

mirrorbird (21:49:08)
it's technically a really nice 8-bit machine. but not many 'normal' people had them, just teachers' kids. i had one that i bought second-hand years later, for peanuts, it was great

faraday (21:48:24)
han ok

mirrorbird (21:48:20)
far as you're concerned,. you may see some very occasional BBC demos but they are rare

mirrorbird (21:48:00)
faraday: the BBC (the TV network) created a computer in the early 80s, to try to promote the new computer technology -- they were expensive but seen in most schools at the time. (very nice machine too, good design)

faraday (21:47:57)
oh crikey wot a scortcher

mirrorbird (21:47:24)
for example the \ of ASCII, in Teletext mode, would be the 1/2 fraction sign

Crikey loader

Mad Max (Jochen Hippel)

faraday

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