Daggers Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 From such fantastic beginings, show below, it now pervades day to day life at all levels. Is technology simply the best thing since sliced bread or is it an invasive pile of tosh that is going to rob us all of our privacy and individuality? I reckon privacy and individuality are a price worth paying if we get home based virtual reality sets sometime soon...
Steven Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 From such fantastic beginings, show below, it now pervades day to day life at all levels. Is technology simply the best thing since sliced bread or is it an invasive pile of tosh that is going to rob us all of our privacy and individuality? I reckon privacy and individuality are a price worth paying if we get home based virtual reality sets sometime soon... Give all this technology worship up.
lcfcalan Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 From such fantastic beginings, show below, it now pervades day to day life at all levels. Is technology simply the best thing since sliced bread or is it an invasive pile of tosh that is going to rob us all of our privacy and individuality? I reckon privacy and individuality are a price worth paying if we get home based virtual reality sets sometime soon... That ZX81...........is it a bit like the Sinclair C5 ?
cisono Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 That ZX81...........is it a bit like the Sinclair C5 ? Not sure... that was before my time!
Daggers Posted 26 September 2006 Author Posted 26 September 2006 That ZX81...........is it a bit like the Sinclair C5 ? A mate of mine had one to commute into Kettering ~ great, weren't they?!
lcfcalan Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 A mate of mine had one to commute into Kettering ~ great, weren't they?! Yep they were fun , but why would anyone want to go to Kettering ? (waits till Craig gets his WMD's) out to fire on P/boro)
davieG Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 A bit of innovator wasn't he. I remember buying a build your own sinclair pocket calculator kit in the late 60's all it did in those days was + x - / Somewhat like this: In 1962 he marketed the world's first pocket calculator, by 1976 the world's first digital wristwatch and in 1977 came the fist pocket TV.
Rincewind Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 This was my first PC It was very basic and used tapes. The first time I had it I tried to reset it and buggered it up. There was a screw thing that you had to push at the back of it and I damaged it by inserting a screwdriver. I took it back to the shop and they exchanged it. I think it cost around £2oo. With it I could put in my own programs. Something like 10 A=10 20 Explode (Png Shoot) 30 Wait 50 40 Next A 50 Wait 50 60 Goto 10 This used to annoy the neigbours I copied adventure games from books but found a lot of mistakes in them. Same with magazines. There were lots of errors. I was a member of a club for Oric users and had a magazine every month. I went to a couple of meetings/computer fairs. Eventually they brought out an adapter for discs think it was called Sedoric. But even that was not too good. It was connected very poorly and liable to come apart. When I had it I said at the time I would never get the sort of PC I am using now. It served the purpose for what I was using it for. But the attraction of the internet got to me eventually. I still have my Oric Atmos and all the tapes etc. Even the mags are still in their folders. In a way I grew up with the modern PC. That is why when I see messageboards posts with textspeak or in capital letters I moan sometimes. I read up on netequette rules when first aquiring what was a new thing. This is something youngsters today do not do because they grow up with the PC already in the school and home. My brother had a ZX 81. II think that is why I got mine. t was almost like a laptop really. He carried it about with him and just plugged it into the TV. Something I missed when I got my modern PC. The only thing was it was tempermental. If you knocked the wires it was liable to crash and you'd lose everything andhad to reload which sometimes took a while. Also the volume and tone on the recorder had to be just right. I can't really say that I miss my Oric Atmos. BTW the FUNC key bottom right never served any purpose. Towards the end of its reign some tec wizards dic manage to bring a program out for its use. I think it was there I think because the makers expected to find a use before they sold it and it made the thing look better.
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