Comments on: When you see your life in a museum http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Oren Gabay http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-847 Oren Gabay Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:50:03 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-847 WAW - this post brought back pictures from my University time (20 years ago...). I will love to visit! Thanks WAW – this post brought back pictures from my University time (20 years ago…).

I will love to visit!

Thanks

]]> By: James Macdonald http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-846 James Macdonald Wed, 30 May 2007 13:57:54 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-846 wow - I'm feeling old now too - I remember you using the Apple Newton around the university. wow – I’m feeling old now too – I remember you using the Apple Newton around the university.

]]> By: Nicola http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-845 Nicola Wed, 30 May 2007 13:19:03 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-845 I have owned 2 out of 3 of those models of Sinclair - Spending many happy hours as a kid, writing reams of code for it to play something as simple as a nursery rhyme... or games on cassette - I'm sure we all remember those graphics! That was the early 80's; and where are we now? Google Earth, Local Live and 3D-fly-throughs. Gone are the days of the Acorn PC and the 5 1/4" floppy drive, now we have Dual-Core machines and data formats (RSS, GML, XML...) that are best described using acronyms! I have owned 2 out of 3 of those models of Sinclair – Spending many happy hours as a kid, writing reams of code for it to play something as simple as a nursery rhyme… or games on cassette – I’m sure we all remember those graphics! That was the early 80′s; and where are we now? Google Earth, Local Live and 3D-fly-throughs.

Gone are the days of the Acorn PC and the 5 1/4″ floppy drive, now we have Dual-Core machines and data formats (RSS, GML, XML…) that are best described using acronyms!

]]> By: Phil Bridges http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-844 Phil Bridges Tue, 29 May 2007 23:27:33 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-844 Quote - Ed Said: "BBC computer you were lucky, we dreamed of having a BBC.." Could there be a Monty Python sketch in the makings here? Our family were so t'ut poor we couldn't afford a computer so us Dad used to thieve owt copy of PC World off t'ut newstand stand and cut picture out of 4.77MHz IBM PC and stick it on't wall.. ('Comicbookman' -.. worst Yorkshire accent ever...) Quote – Ed Said:

“BBC computer you were lucky, we dreamed of having a BBC..”

Could there be a Monty Python sketch in the makings here?

Our family were so t’ut poor we couldn’t afford a computer so us Dad used to thieve owt copy of PC World off t’ut newstand stand and cut picture out of 4.77MHz IBM PC and stick it on’t wall..

(‘Comicbookman’ -.. worst Yorkshire accent ever…)

]]> By: Dominic Hargreaves http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-843 Dominic Hargreaves Tue, 29 May 2007 14:09:34 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-843 Readers in the UK may be interested in the Bletchley Park computer museum: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/visit/attractions.rhtm Readers in the UK may be interested in the Bletchley Park computer museum: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/visit/attractions.rhtm

]]> By: Ian Painter http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-842 Ian Painter Tue, 29 May 2007 12:57:25 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-842 There's a great computer museum inside Bletchley Park (which is well worth a visit on its own). http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/visit/attractions.rhtm The best thing about the Bletchley Park museum is that all the machines are up and running with the latest and greatest titles of the time, including Pong on the Binatone, Sabotage on the ZX81, Trans Am on the Spectrum and Elite on the BBC. Be warned attending the computer museum with your disinterested wife can cause major marital problems ;) Ian There’s a great computer museum inside Bletchley Park (which is well worth a visit on its own).

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/visit/attractions.rhtm

The best thing about the Bletchley Park museum is that all the machines are up and running with the latest and greatest titles of the time, including Pong on the Binatone, Sabotage on the ZX81, Trans Am on the Spectrum and Elite on the BBC. Be warned attending the computer museum with your disinterested wife can cause major marital problems ;)

Ian

]]> By: Ed http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-841 Ed Mon, 28 May 2007 23:56:43 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-841 BBC computer you were lucky, we dreamed of having a BBC.. BBC computer you were lucky, we dreamed of having a BBC..

]]> By: Phil Bridges http://www.edparsons.com/2007/05/when-you-see-your-life-in-a-museum/#comment-840 Phil Bridges Mon, 28 May 2007 23:15:37 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=466#comment-840 Did I really shell out £450 for a BBC Model B back in 1983? And did it really only have 32K of memory 18K of which was gobbled up by the OS.. and a grand total of 16 colours? And I did really fork out £170 for a 40 track (100K I think) single sided disk drive? Did I really shell out £450 for a BBC Model B back in 1983? And did it really only have 32K of memory 18K of which was gobbled up by the OS.. and a grand total of 16 colours? And I did really fork out £170 for a 40 track (100K I think) single sided disk drive?

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