cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) (03/15/91)
In <4~J&2C-@warwick.ac.uk> csuaw@warwick.ac.uk (Patrick Clark) writes: > .. perhaps there sould be some sort > of count of the machine ownership of this group.. possibly more people have > Arcs than anything else .. but it would be interesting to see. I'd be interested too. If everybody who feels so inclined to do so would mail me (cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie - if a site doesn't know about the ie domain (shame on you!), try cbuckley%unix1.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu) giving details of your machine type, peripherals and major software owned, etc, I'll try to collate them and post the results in a month or so. I just think the results might be interesting. Note - Acorn machines only please. I don't want lots of Commodore Amoeba people mailing me telling me how great their machines are - my Acorn A3000 is quite good enough for me! (I don't know - maybe they read the group out of spite or something....) Colm. +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Colm Buckley | "My program doesn't work." | | Computer Science, | "You forgot the semicolon." | | Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland | "But..." | | | "Line 376. Check." | | cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie | "But..." | | CBUCKLEY@vax1.tcd.ie | "Trust me." | +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
kvj@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Valur Jonsson) (03/18/91)
In <210@hobby.ukc.ac.uk> has@ukc.ac.uk (H.A.Shaw) writes: > My *FIRST* computer (I don't count my "Science of Cambridge MK14") was a >Jupiter ACE, a Z80 processor, 959 bytes of user program RAM and FORTH in ROM, >I upgraded to an Atom and never looked back. How wonderful, another Jupiter Ace owner!!! That was my first micro too, and it was just wonderful. I admit though, that when the heaps of games started to pile up for the ZX Spectrum, I had second thoughts. But having Forth as a language made up for it. The manual was well written and I read it all even though it was written in English (I was younger then.). I am very grateful to the guys who made this contraption because it really made me understand how primitive BASIC is. Kristjan