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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on March 23, 2008, 10:20
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1
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how wrong but how right is that person. The internet is a useful tool but bloody hell we do rely on it and to think that our students actually learn anything from just sticking them in front of a computer is very short-sighted..
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Pre-Google, I always likened the 'net to be let loose in the world's largest library, but without access to the index...
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1995 sounds not all that long ago, but not many of us had home PCs then!
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Heck, I was on my second! I'd changed my Dec 386 for an Atlantic 486DX by then. I think my internet speed was a lot faster back then though.
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I'd been through 286 - 386SX - 386 - 486 by then...
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Some people always have to go one better! ;D
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i think i must have been getting my first proper pc around then, i was 12. :-D ... though I may have still been on the old acorn a3010
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A good place to start. :)
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Was that the Archimedes?
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i believe it was...
.. I actually started off with an atari 65xe... I still have it and reckon if I ever have kids (edit: on girlfriends request - when I have) they need to be able to write a couple of games on there before I let them lose with a more sophisticated machine. Have to get them to respect their computer.
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The Archimedes were good machines. We had one for a few years.
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Any of you remember what the prices were back then? I ran across an old newspaper ad when scotty and me ran the shop. Back in 95 a person could buy a packard bell 250mhz 32mb with a 4 gig hd for only $3500 ~ 7000 pound.
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I think you have the conversion rate back to front Bob. Back then $1 would buy £0.6
My first Dec 386 cost nearly £2000 which translates to - oh yeah, $2000 in Rip-Off Britain. ;D
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I think our first proper pc was around that mark.. though I'm not sure as my parents would have gotten it. I think they look back now and realise how good use of cash it was.