Freecycle triumph

[altariel]

Some early spring-cleaning unearthed a mint condition bound set of Input magazine (a Marshall Cavendish partwork!), which I offered on Freecycle. I got two responses, and have given them to the guy who - sweetly - still sometimes writes programs on his BBC Micro.

Comments

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for the BBC Micro, I did a YTS course and learnt to program the things in BASIC. The programs were pretty useless, but it was good fun doing it! :-)

I used to do things like this in Dixons...

10 print "What is your name?"
20 input A$
30 Print A$ "is a big fat expletive deleted!"
40 Goto 30

Ah, happy-ish days! :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good result! Mine have moved from home to home across twenty years and sat unopened for all that time. Every time I've cleared out cupboards we've flicked through them and put them away again. This time round I was ready to pass them on.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Hehe! When I started at Uni I went to a computer club "intro" in a room with a network of RML480Z machines. The guy up front was waffling on about something and being really dull. As it happened, my school had installed a 480Z network (and a BBC network) that summer, and I'd been one of the people involved in planning it. So I knew that if I happened to type:

10 for a = 1 to 1000
20 dir
30 next

then when the boring guy finally started trying to demonstrate something the whole network would be locked up trying to serve me directory listings. I wasn't really expecting him to resort to rebooting the whole room to fix it....