[Gllug] BBC and acorn bits

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:40:01PM +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:49:53 +0100 salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > > When I got mine in the back of the manual was the code for writing 
> > > the  ping pong/tennis game I spent 300 weeks copying it out at
> > > command line  
> > 
> > Aye, and when you tell the young'uns that these days, they won't
> > believe you...
> 
> 
> Luxury. On my first microcomputer you had to type in the BASIC commands
> every time you wanted to return the ball. I could never type fast
> enough and lost every game.

And you know what? I was bloody grateful! (aside: was that a monty
python sketch? I forgeet).

very funny!

ben.

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