Re: FN-FORUM: OT: My first computer experience

date posted 13th May 2008 16:42

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 17:57, Rob Colton wrote:
>
> In a fenzy of tech nostalgia bought on by the sad demise of my old BBC B I
> was reminded of my first encounter with a proper computer. It was while on a
> school boat trip around the canals of Birmingham that we were allowed to
> explore the local town. Me and my mate stumbled across a TANDY store and in
> it was a TRS-80. Having been exposed to no other computers at the time other
> than on Star Trek and Blakes Seven, I walked up to the counter and boldly
> typed:
>
> "Play noughts and crosses"
>
> Of course, the old faithful "Syntax Error" or similar popped up.

I have just reinstalled Black and White on a qemu copy of my old win95 machine.
Of course it can install off the CD but then bombs out with 'cannot find CD'

But quicken works.

cheers
TimP