OLD DAYS

[Toby Fisher]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> I still want something like that. Booting from hd, even on Linux,
> just isn't the same as flipping a switch and having a prompt at
> about the same time.

Oooo, who remembers the good old BBC mode b?  Now there was a dumb
computer, I mean, it was a crap games machine, but they were good machines
just to play with, and you could even get a screen reader for them, on
disk of course, or you could issue a whole load of *fx commands and vdu
commands, and get the internal voice chip to do the speaking for you, if
you could understand it.  And then, of course, there was Wordwise...

Cheers.

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