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<HTML>Eeee, kids today ... they don't know they're born, do they? I remember when I were at school, we didn't have none of this here fancy internet stuff. The most high-tech device we had was a plug-in calculator, and you had to go and ask permission to use that. And if you wanted dubious literature you had to wait until Gaz Leach nicked his brother's porn stash. But I tell you this; they were t'happiest days of our lives. Not.</HTML>
<HTML>No - wouldn't be so cruel. My school was late onto the bandwagon - hence us being old enough to really take advantage of it. And dubious literature also made its way into the classroom. That's a traditional thing handed down from first year to first year.</HTML>
<HTML>I thought ZX81 had 1k of RAM? We had a 48k spectrum...which I think was unique as it worked out of the box, and never broke down.... Still going to this day I believe.</HTML>
<HTML>As I say, we were posh. We got a 16K additional plug-in RAM.
Except the connections were very dodgy and doing anything as
outrageous as typing caused it to crash.</HTML>
<HTML>I had a 64K Spectrum too, the games were so great lol
Oh kids these days don't know how easy they've got... even at uni I learnt Lotus 123 (the non-windows version... there was no windows...), Dbase IV... all those nice and easy to use programs ;)</HTML>
<HTML>My first computer was a 48k Spectrum (with dead flesh keyboard). My first foray on to the internet was on a Commodore Amiga (512k) with a 2600 modem, this was in the days before the www was invented and playing a text based adventure game (you remember: n,n,n,kill troll, search corpse, get gold from corspe, w,s...etc) over a telnet connection was cutting edge!</HTML>