bondbill2k2 Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Its nice to have a monday morning where your not rushed off your feet by a heap of work, requests, problems or the dreaded hardware failure if your unlucky but I started my day just like that and decided I starteed here in January and i'm yet to give this office a really decent tidy up and sort the piles of folders and paper on the many shelves and draws, 30min into my cleanup I find this I have now found 3 of them including Barcode programs v2.0 Altek, BBC master series microcompputer welcome and utilities disc and one simply branded Fuji, I know the office needed a clean but this is taking the pee
DAZZD88 Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Is that a 5.25" diskette? Haven't seen one of them since the old Macintosh we had. Then again, we have laserdisc in our office.
NikChillin Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 We found a laptop the other month, it was on the top shelf and it had last been used in 1996. It had a very early version of Windows on it, (can't remember the version).
Oaktech Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 we've had a tidy up in our office and found a whole box of windows NT4 disks and an original tosh satellite with what looks like a 10" square screen!
bondbill2k2 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 Yep its a 5.25", I took it into the IT lesson next door to which the kids were amazed by the size and even more when I explained they only have 1.2MB of storage and a year 7 askineg "was it from the 50s" We have a machine still in use by a member of staff at home, a viglan contender which I found some warrenty details on during the cleanup. They asked us about upgrading it last week along with their ergo laptop
Oaktech Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 see, kids today will never understand how fast and how far we have come, if they don't realise where we were not very long ago...
bondbill2k2 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 I'm only 22 so its not something I had experience with, had my first computer when I was around 13 as a family Christmas present.
Oaktech Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 hey, i'm only 31, but i cut my teeth at the age of about 8 on bbc micros and bbc basic so did battle with all of this arcane and archaic technology. (my first home computer was a zx81 with the unbelievably expensive 16k ram pack!)
gshaw Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Take em to Bletchley Park into the Colussus room, that's a real education in IT I think those floppies need to be put in a frame in your office, I saved a BBC from here a few years back so the oldest thing in here now is a 386 laptop...
bondbill2k2 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 I do have memorys of in year 2 playing a game on some form of computer, an RPG Text game I suppose you could call it you had to go throught a house and perform certain tasks, I renember something to do with a wolf and the characters grandmother? Ring any bells for anyone? EDIT UPDATE- http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/bestrest.html#granny Found it
Chris_Cook Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 I found a couple of laptops in a cupboard in a classroom the other week, one hadn't been used since 96 or so, the other was an acorn laptop. I didn't even realise acorn made laptops.
sonofsanta Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Nice! I have a manual for the Acorn RISC OS3 in my drawer, but the best Ancient Artifact I've found here was a digital camera with a floppy drive in the side.
Oaktech Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Before i started this job i was working installing projectors and we had to run a cable though a cupboard, and when we opened the cupboard we found several sony mavica fd200 cameras, a complete bbc micro rig (including the dual floppy drive) and an acorn with the external hardrive (not sure if it was the 40 or the 100mb). I desperately wanted to take them away and give them a better life but i was unable to find anyone to ask!
Trapper Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 I proudly have my 5" disc of BBC Repton bluetacked to my office wall along with a photocopy of my software mentioned in Acorn User! My technical manual shelf also has a copy of the invaluable WIMP Programming for All by Alan Wrigley (for RISC OS 2) At home I've got a working RISC PC 600 (StrongARM 233, 586 card, 128MB RAM, Viewfinder - the works!)
MK-2 Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 see, kids today will never understand how fast and how far we have come, if they don't realise where we were not very long ago... Our head of music (who used to work in the BBC) done an assembly earlier this year where he showed varying stages of media storage. Went from reels, to vhs/betamax, to dv/minidv, floppy disk, cd, bluray, then down to compactflash, xd, sd and finally microsd. showing the difference in size from a reel to a microsd and saying that in just 20/30 years we've gone this far, and the amount you can store on the fingernail sized card is far more than the face sized reel
sonofsanta Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Our head of music (who used to work in the BBC) done an assembly earlier this year where he showed varying stages of media storage. Went from reels, to vhs/betamax, to dv/minidv, floppy disk, cd, bluray, then down to compactflash, xd, sd and finally microsd. showing the difference in size from a reel to a microsd and saying that in just 20/30 years we've gone this far, and the amount you can store on the fingernail sized card is far more than the face sized reel I had a staff member a year or two ago who was still bringing reports in from home on floppy, so I explained to her that the penstick I had in my hand, 4Gb, contained as much data as a 9m line of floppy disks stacked vertically the length of the staff room. It's scary when you work it out.
DAZZD88 Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 but the best Ancient Artifact I've found here was a digital camera with a floppy drive in the side. Hey!! We were still using one of these up until about 4 years ago. Pffft, ancient they say.
gshaw Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 At home I've got a working RISC PC 600 (StrongARM 233, 586 card, 128MB RAM, Viewfinder - the works!) I've got a RISC PC as well, though nowhere near as quick as that one!
Blue_Cookeh Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 I do have memorys of in year 2 playing a game on some form of computer, an RPG Text game I suppose you could call it you had to go throught a house and perform certain tasks, I renember something to do with a wolf and the characters grandmother? Ring any bells for anyone? EDIT UPDATE- Only the Best BBC Micro Games / BBC Games from the past - Classic Games Found it Not sure how bad the fact that I'm testing a Win98 version of that same program under Windows 7 today is.
Trapper Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Hey!! We were still using one of these up until about 4 years ago. Pffft, ancient they say. I'm stil USING one! It's a Sony one, it was fantastic in it's day. Still useful for our kids to use (ASD) and it's built like a brick sh!thouse. If you drop it, nothing damages it!
Trapper Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 I've got a RISC PC as well, though nowhere near as quick as that one! Got it for £50 off eBay back in 2004. Found the StrongARM card in a storeroom at a local primary school!
markcuk Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 I'm stil USING one! It's a Sony one, it was fantastic in it's day. Still useful for our kids to use (ASD) and it's built like a brick sh!thouse. If you drop it, nothing damages it! we used to have one of those at my old place got it with the tesco vouchers!
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