Comment Re:Good but Dull (Score 1) 213
Strange. At the time (and in retrospect, unfairly) the Spectrum always seemed like a toy machine to me.
The BBC Micro, on the other hand, seemed like a serious machine. All I can truly say is that I owe
a lot to my BBC micro and the people who made it. Although I learned elementary programming on
a Trash-80, the BBC was the machine on which I really started to do useful stuff. At college I used it to
analyze the results from my lab classes (and later fake them with a nice spread of errors), word
process my reports, visualize diffraction patterns, work out square well potentials. I even used it
for (small) neural net simulations written in ISO Pascal for my post grad project. Oh, and then there
was Elite and Revs and Adventure.... oh and I still miss my Music 500 synth box.
The BBC Micro, on the other hand, seemed like a serious machine. All I can truly say is that I owe
a lot to my BBC micro and the people who made it. Although I learned elementary programming on
a Trash-80, the BBC was the machine on which I really started to do useful stuff. At college I used it to
analyze the results from my lab classes (and later fake them with a nice spread of errors), word
process my reports, visualize diffraction patterns, work out square well potentials. I even used it
for (small) neural net simulations written in ISO Pascal for my post grad project. Oh, and then there
was Elite and Revs and Adventure.... oh and I still miss my Music 500 synth box.
