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

faraday (21:47:13)
what is a BBC ?

mirrorbird (21:47:06)
and it was in the 8-bit character set. oh wait, i think it was Teletext which isn't ANSi/ASCII, there were some weird chars. ha ha. you've brought back memories.

mirrorbird (21:46:37)
there was a || symbol on the BBC micro, i'm not sure what that was. looks like a Pause button. but it had some meaning or other

faraday (21:46:23)
don't have this one

Dark Side of the Spoon

Mad Max (Jochen Hippel)

faraday

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