Amstrads and Thinness

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Amstrads and Thinness
Sun, 28 Sep 2014, 19:21
Dabz	I had a dream lastnight I had a Amstrad CPC...But it was wafer thing and wouldnt turn on properly because the disk drive wasnt attached! -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit
Sun, 28 Sep 2014, 19:21
steve_ancell	I can imagine trying to code on a wafer thin CPC, I'm getting numb fingers just thinking of it. LOL
Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 01:23
rockford	Amstrad could have made a fairly thin machine BITD if they'd put all the computery bits & bobs into the monitor housing.
Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 01:48
steve_ancell	rockford Amstrad could have made a fairly thin machine BITD if they'd put all the computery bits & bobs into the monitor housing. They did, it's called PCW.
Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 03:31
rockford	That wasn't a computer. That was a calculator with delusions of grandeur! I was thinking of the CPC range, but yeah (although it came much later than my BITD )
Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 06:32
steve_ancell	I really don't miss the horrible green screen of the PCW, we used them quite a bit at schoool and the place was full of them. On top of that we had shitloads of BBCs and then all of those were replaced with Acorn Archimedes roughly 18 months before I left school. All in all my school's computer curriculum was a proper steaming dog pile, computer geeks were few and far between and even then those of us that were into computers knew shitloads more than the teachers did.
Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 07:19
Jayenkai	OMG! Steve went to MY school!!!! On our last year at secondary, Win 95 had just appeared, and the school's IT department finally made the switch. About 30 PCWs "went away", never found out where. The BBCs on the other hand, got handed down to the Language department, who placed two BBCs at the back of each classroom. Me and my mate Ken (J'n'K) were the "new" unofficial support staff for the language department, which generally meant daily trips to each room to wiggle the worn out connectors a little bit, to get the disk drives working again!! Silly old teachers, not knowing how to wiggle a wire!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 11:54
steve_ancell	I remember we used to wind-up the teachers by typing a command that made the BBC screens go blank until they got wise to it, I think it was *unplug12 or something like that.