On 23 December 2016 at 19:34, Michael Holley <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in London in 1981 and happened upon a computer faire. Here is a > write-up published in Seattle's Northwest Computer Society newsletter. It is > an American's view of the English computer scene. > http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/LondonComputerFaire/Newsletter.htm > > Photos > http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/LondonComputerFaire/Photos.htm
Very interesting -- thanks for that! I'm intrigued that although you prefix notate dollars ($300), you postfix-notate pounds (125£), when Brits prefix too. Any particular reason? I suspect that that was before the home computer gaming boom, and 2-3y later things would look rather different. As a student (1985-1988) I attended launches of the CBM Amiga and Apple ][GS -- I don't recall exactly when -- but they were vastly out of my price range. In '85 I was still using a ZX Spectrum with ZX Microdrives; by '87 or '88 I'd managed to get a floppy interface and a single 5¼" drive (as the media were much cheaper than the new 3½" diskettes, which were 5×-10× the price). So even after 16-bit machines started to appear, even fairly serious hobbyists such as myself continued to use 8-bits & other old-fashioned tech, as they were massively cheaper. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
