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

date posted 13th May 2008 17:37

funnily enough I used to live in a flat next to Cally, the attractive
lady from Blake's 7 with the
brown curly hair.

On 13 May 2008, at 17:59, 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.
>
>
>
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