ICON't believe it!

[pauland]

Despite the deviation about the pros and cons of Apple kit, I made the post as an interesting story of how good design can really pay back.

[handrawn]

sure - I appreciate that, and it is a good story

despite my comment in the other thread about not looking back, I do remember the ICL 1900 with core memory [wire on magnet] that we had to lift the lid off and blow cold air through to stop it overheating because it was not designed to operate in a faraday cage...

those were the days.. nowadays everything is just expected to work out of the box...

[pauland]

sure - I appreciate that, and it is a good story

despite my comment in the other thread about not looking back, I do remember the ICL 1900 with core memory [wire on magnet] that we had to lift the lid off and blow cold air through to stop it overheating because it was not designed to operate in a faraday cage...

those were the days.. nowadays everything is just expected to work out of the box...

I used an ICL 1900 back in the day in my O- Level, then A-Level Computer Science course.

[handrawn]

george III, amber text screen, and playing chess whilst the computer took four hours to do what would now be done in four millisecs, breaking off occasionally to change tape or EDS... mis-spent youth you might say....

[Acorn]

george III, amber text screen, and playing chess whilst the computer took four hours to do what would now be done in four millisecs, breaking off occasionally to change tape or EDS... mis-spent youth you might say....

George IV, , PDP 8, ICL1902 & Hollerith Cards and then a teletype to the mainframe with a thing called BASIC using something called ASCII. Before that it was switches, assembler, APL and PL/1. Onto Exidy Sorcerer, the Atom, Electron and rocketed into BBC BASIC with its Models A/B and Acorn Archimedes, meeting Computer Concepts and ArtWorks. All could be taken apart physically and logically so never had the need for Apple II or later.

Acorn