Re: What If


"Keith Willshaw" <keithnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"William Black" <william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Peter Skelton" <skeltonp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Now show examples of people bringing in their own
PC's in 1978.

Why in hell should I? If you want to pick that nit, address
William.

I didn't even say it happened then. I said that was when I got into
computers professionally for the first time.

Which was something called the SC/MP that I doubt anyone even remembers
these days.

I wish I could forget it...

I was working as an electronic instrument tech at the time and one of the
design guys brought this twin board thing in and said it was the future
and we should all play with it.

If I remember correctly all we ever really got it to do was some clever
stuff with the display and we couldn't make the control bus do anything
much at all...

Anyway, that company folded and I ended up doing clever stuff for the
gambling industry...

The only technical training relating to computers available in the UK
prior to 1981 was the old CGLI 'Computers A', 'Computers B' and
'Computers C' courses that were part of the old 'Full Technological
Technicians Certificate'. They were fun but not exactly up to date as
they were designed mainly for people working for ICL.



Wrong again . UMIST was running computer science courses in 1965
turning out 30 graduates a year. I attended a programming course for
Fortran IV in 1972 in the UK. We used an IBM 360-67. The OS
that machine ran was DOS/360

I don't mean for graduates, of which my employed had only one, I mean for
technical staff.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.



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