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Andrew Duffell |
Message #77526, posted by ad at 00:14, 11/7/2006 |
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How old are you all? I'm disappointed I don't seem to be the youngest playpenner anymore 
I'm twenty. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #77527, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:32, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77526 |
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John Albert Bullen |
Message #77529, posted by JohnB at 06:49, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77526 |
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25 next week ^_^ |
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Sion |
Message #77530, posted by blasts of the xtre at 07:35, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77529 |
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VinceH |
Message #77532, posted by VincceH at 08:54, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77526 |
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Mike |
Message #77533, posted by MikeCarter at 08:58, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77532 |
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18 turning 19 at the end of August. |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #77538, posted by andypoole at 10:21, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77526 |
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richard cheng |
Message #77539, posted by richcheng at 10:21, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77533 |
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27. Or 28? I forget. Well on the way to thirty, though  |
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John Hoare |
Message #77547, posted by moss at 12:49, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77539 |
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James Shaw |
Message #77550, posted by Hertzsprung at 14:17, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77547 |
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Posting ages is silly, because next year (or earlier), this thread will be meaningless. Much better would be to post your year of birth. For the record, my year of birth is 1983, so ner.
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Mike |
Message #77551, posted by MikeCarter at 14:22, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77550 |
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Posting ages is silly, because next year (or earlier), this thread will be meaningless. Much better would be to post your year of birth. For the record, my year of birth is 1983, so ner.
[Edited by Hertzsprung at 14:18, 11/7/2006] Yeh good point.
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #77552, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:25, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77551 |
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Age + Year of post = Year of birth (within an error of +1 year) |
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ninjah |
Message #77555, posted by ninj at 16:48, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77552 |
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Erk! Judging by the shows I've been to, I didn't think there were many risc osers much younger than, say, 30. Gawd, I bet some of you never used BBCs at school. |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #77556, posted by andypoole at 17:04, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77555 |
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Gawd, I bet some of you never used BBCs at school. I did! I remember being all excited at the sight of a brand new BBC Master being unboxed at the back of the classroom one afternoon 
[Edited by andypoole at 17:05, 11/7/2006] |
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VinceH |
Message #77557, posted by VincceH at 17:25, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77552 |
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Age + Year of post = Year of birth (within an error of +1 year) Yes. If you're Mork.  |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #77558, posted by Phlamethrower at 17:33, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77557 |
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Gawd, I bet some of you never used BBCs at school. I did! I remember being all excited at the sight of a brand new BBC Master being unboxed at the back of the classroom one afternoon
So either your school couldn't afford Arc's, or you started going to school at age 1
Age + Year of post = Year of birth (within an error of +1 year) Yes. If you're Mork.
Hmm, perhaps there was a mistake there
Year of post - Age = Year of birth (within an error of +1 year)
[edit - Birth, not birst!]
[Edited by Phlamethrower at 17:34, 11/7/2006] |
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Ian Cook |
Message #77559, posted by ilcook at 18:17, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77558 |
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If it's anything I left school as the bbc computer was coming out. Feeling very old. |
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Sion |
Message #77560, posted by blasts of the xtre at 18:28, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77559 |
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In my old primary school they had some old RiscPC and A5000, I don't know if they still have them anymore. |
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Andrew |
Message #77561, posted by andrew at 18:30, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77560 |
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So you could have played PIAS 18 brand new when you were 2 on the BBC! |
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Kevin Wells |
Message #77562, posted by Revin Kevin at 18:50, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77555 |
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Erk! Judging by the shows I've been to, I didn't think there were many risc osers much younger than, say, 30. Gawd, I bet some of you never used BBCs at school. When I went to school we did not have computers.
Teachers were allowed to cane the kids, we had to wear a proper school uniform, sports days was competitive.
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Sion |
Message #77563, posted by blasts of the xtre at 18:52, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77562 |
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Man, you're ancient! |
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Andrew Duffell |
Message #77564, posted by ad at 19:14, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77563 |
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We used BBC micros in my primary school. Infact my old secondary school still uses them for measurements in physics labs. |
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Mike |
Message #77567, posted by MikeCarter at 20:29, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77555 |
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Erk! Judging by the shows I've been to, I didn't think there were many risc osers much younger than, say, 30. Gawd, I bet some of you never used BBCs at school. I remember my teacher programming some BASIC on it 
I also remember playing a little snakes and laders game. |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #77568, posted by andypoole at 21:46, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77558 |
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Gawd, I bet some of you never used BBCs at school. I did! I remember being all excited at the sight of a brand new BBC Master being unboxed at the back of the classroom one afternoon
So either your school couldn't afford Arc's, or you started going to school at age 1
They did get a couple of A3010s and A3020s, but mainly still used BBCs. Then the school burnt down. They lost the lot except the few machines that were in mobiles rather than the school building, then they got some A4000s and A5000s from the Tesco coupons (when they were sponsored by Acorn). Then I left for high school, who had Win3.11 boxes, and a room of Amstrad PCWs (complete with green screen!). They did have a room of BBCs in the Maths block, and in 2000 upgraded the lot to NT4 boxes. Dunno what they use there now. |
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Mike |
Message #77569, posted by MikeCarter at 22:00, 11/7/2006, in reply to message #77568 |
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Then I left for high school, who had Win3.11 boxes, and a room of Amstrad PCWs (complete with green screen!). They did have a room of BBCs in the Maths block, and in 2000 upgraded the lot to NT4 boxes. Dunno what they use there now. When I went to high school they used RISC PC's for 3 of the years I was there, for the last 2 years there were NT machines Though some RISC PCs were still being used around the non ICT based class rooms, and I bought one of them
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Andrew Duffell |
Message #77570, posted by ad at 02:10, 12/7/2006, in reply to message #77569 |
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My old secondary school still uses Acorn NCs, but only as terminals for Windows. |
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John Hoare |
Message #77571, posted by moss at 02:52, 12/7/2006, in reply to message #77570 |
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My secondary school used to have pretty much everything - A310s, A440s, A3000s, A3020s - even an A500!
I remember great excitement when we got our first A7000  No RPCs, though.
My primary school was BBC Micros and Masters - although we did get *one* Arc when I was there. My teacher was cross, and said she thought getting such a powerful computer was a waste of money...
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Simon Challands |
Message #77573, posted by SimonC at 10:20, 12/7/2006, in reply to message #77526 |
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An age thread. Thank you ever so much. I do NOT want ages or birthdays or anything along those lines mentioned when I've got less than a month to go before I'm thirty.
FWIW, RISC OS first turned up at school for me when I was at secondary age. For some reason the art department was one of the first to get an Archimedes, and had Atelier on it. By the time I left the fastest machines were A5000s. There were a few Windows things around (3.1, I suppose), but they hadn't made much impact before I left.
Kids used to write all sorts of interesting little programs when I was at school. Can't imagine them doing that now. |
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Andrew |
Message #77574, posted by andrew at 11:18, 12/7/2006, in reply to message #77573 |
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Simon - are you worried about turning 30? |
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Mike |
Message #77577, posted by MikeCarter at 12:35, 12/7/2006, in reply to message #77573 |
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Kids used to write all sorts of interesting little programs when I was at school. Can't imagine them doing that now. They used to do that at my secondary school, but the year I was guna do it they switched to windows |
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