Retro computers used in Irish schools?

CiDeRmAn · 14-11-2022 9:39am

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Get away from us, Peasant!

80s Synth Pop · 15-11-2022 8:42pm

That's the game: Dragons World! Any time I searched for "dragon tooth bbc micro" that other text game kept coming up. Can't believe it. I was probably 7 years old when I last played in first class and still remember it. Damn tear in my eye watching that video :D

Thanks Bucko!

Sorry I've no clue about the dragon monkey pole treasure room backwards alphabet game(!?) but I'll do some research!

eddhorse · 04-01-2023 11:52am

https://youtu.be/6Y9KKlHNFtM

We never had anything in National School, but in Secondary School we had the previously mentioned separate small building with some BBC Micros and others i cant remmeber.

Generally we were just using a typing tutor, shame as the building was then locked , shame.

Girl Geraldine · 04-01-2023 11:56am

I entered primary school in 1991. I remember my school had 2 BBC Master computers, one green screen and the other was orange i think. There was an Acorn Archimedes A3010. And we got two Apricot Windows 95 PCs presumably in 1995 and they were an exotic marvel at the time.

10-10-20 · 04-01-2023 12:12pm

RM Nimbus (https://www.thenimbus.co.uk/range-of-nimbus-computers) I think in 1990. We had two with colour and the rest were green!

We had a BBC Micro 128k in the local library with a very limited selection of 'educational' games - I don't know how the 5 1/4 in floppies survived with all those fingerprints on them. They made using the microfiche scanners beside the computers seem exciting.

Dr Bob · 05-01-2023 11:24am

Primary School was a few BBC Micros I think . Secondary school didnt have any afaik ,(although there were groups of 8 bit computer owners all in their own turf war , I was in the Atari gang(800xl!) , but eventually we converted over and joined the Commodore lads ...we avoided the Speccies though , with their colour clash and rubber keys!)

College was a few old 8086 machines connected to telnet (which with the right , finely tuned 5 1/4 boot disk would be perfect for MUDding) and a lot of 386s running Windows 3.1 all hooked up to the one networked CDrom drive! (this was early 90s ) .

10-10-20 · 05-01-2023 3:05pm

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CD-ROM on a network - that must have been slow!

I remember looking at some of my father's programming guides which covered the BBC and Spectrum, you know then ones where you'd type in the program off the page and then have to wait for next month's update to correct whatever bug you encountered - and the Spectrum had all of those funny boxes in the commands like: echo <square box> <stairs left> <blank square> <filled-in square> <stairs right>. It made for interesting looking commands, but hell, how did that work!!??