RE: FN-FORUM: So, exactly what is web design? was: Full-time designer needed

date posted 1st March 2004 11:23

I worked in Birmingham, in a portacabin, so in the summer when it got realy
hot we had to take the lid off the BBC Micro so it wouldn'd crash lol. I
went on a BBC Basic course, joined a uni forum and picked up the
'mathematical' bits from some others. It was so satisfying when I took the
machine out into the field for testing. It was only when we added sound that
the children really became interested, I recall one little girl with Downs
was so excited - we were learning parts of the face - and she was just
pointing to her own face and saying the words. The ST said she'd never done
that before. But the money run out, so I ended up playing with lasers
instead ;-)

Theresa
ps that was in 1982

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designer needed



Yup, the Beeb!

I worked for the MEP from 1982 to 1984 - it's dying years, so to say. We
stopped being the MEP and because someting else after Central Government
policy changed.

Apart form the control technology stuff, I also worked on projects with
children with both learning difficulties and physical disabilities. I left
when my wife started a university course, in Nottingham, and freelanced /
contracted from then to now. I feel that I contributed more to the quality
of life of people during those two years than I've done in the intervening
20.....

Joe


From: "Thorny_bird" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Wow! are you talking about the BBC Micro - or version (all be it earlier)
> there of. My first 'development' role was creating animated graphic
> applications to help speech therapists in teaching disphasic children and
> stroke patients. Had loads of fun creating the graphics, adding music
> (written out by my boss). Was the best time I ever had - how I wanted to
> work in Medical Physics... trouble was so did many, many other people.
>



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