Old stuff they used to have at school you remember?
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I defo remember these cassettes they used to have in classrooms
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shiny red exercise books that had maths tables on the back
milk time
Also the lids lifted to store your books inside.
New rubbers.
Half sized jotters for copy writing.
The special child who got chosen to clean the blackboard.
........and the seat/bench was attached to the desk........
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If you finished your work early you'd get a job trimming work sheets or whatever at the guillotine!
My job was to assemble the computer for class when we got use of it.
A BBC Acorn, it had a proper floppy drive, all the bits connected by a proper ribbon cable.
Non were used for what they were designed for, apart from the bat on sports lessons
I remember at the end of primary school, the school had invested in a Philips CDI machine, a little like a DVD player, only for CD-Rom type optical disks, computing disks that were interactive and watched through a TV. It was supposed to be the future but never fully took off. I remember we (only?) had one disk for it, an encyclopedia not unlike Microsoft Encarta.
I remember at school being originally shown basic computing things on a PC, then in secondary school it was purely Apple Macs (then Classics and the iMacs were just introduced as I entered my standard grade years I think, mid to late 90s). I only ever had PCs at home and would get muddled having gone from using a Mac at school some of the day, to a totally different OS at home but we couldn't afford Macs(!). I always preferred PCs anyway.
I remember the original floppy disks and old BBC Micro computers but not thanks to work but rather because my dad worked at a college library where they had such computers and he showed me around and loaded an old floppy disk of games for me to play on, when I was maybe 6 or so, just after a toddler?.
They treated ours like it was the crown jewels. I remember being put in detention and having to do 100 lines once for not showing due respect and sitting still in front of it.
BBC computers!
We used to beg and beg to be allowed to play this game, which came on floppy disc.
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It's so lame
my primary/junior school had no cooking facilities so we used to march to the next school for our school dinners.......all weathers, two foot of snow, balaclavas, little red knees.....:o