Ah yes I remember them well. 3D O and X - great fun!
A couple of the guys even managed to get a fairly decent gorse race simulation running on a 480Z - we had a white and a black one at school with cassette storage - the bees knees! First introduction to basic and Z80 assembly language too. Mind you innocence is so nice - in the early 80s the question would have been what's Unix? Oh, and we were all self taught as the school didn't start formal computer lessons until the early 90s - 7 years after I left! E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kirrus Sent: 10 October 2007 09:40 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] RM ?169 linux-ok notebook > > Wow, that is real nostalga, they had one of those RML 380-Z machines > at > my school but it was considered an antique when I was there back in > the > early 90's. First taste of RM I had was the RM Nimbus PCs. > AAAHHAHAHAA!!! RM! *Runs screaming as fast as possible in opposite direction. There's a name for cowboys like RM. Its not a good one. Their kit and software tends to be: a) buggy b) overpriced c) buggy d) proprietory lock-in (Yes, worse than just MS Windoze) e) slow f) buggy I used to go to a school, who got all computers & services from RM. We had at least one major system failure a year. (As in, all computers down.) The Sasser worm was great fun. Running round every PC with a floppydisk, containing the norton free fix... all 250 of them. One. At. A. Stupidly. Slow. Time. At the time, I was trying to do my ICT A levels... great fun having a popup on the screen telling you your systems shutting down, in the middle of a lesson... Oh yes, and never *ever* shutdown the servers. Never. They don't like it. Oh, and reboot at least once every two weeks. (As I left, there were 5 servers, up from 2 when I started to get involved in the ICT department...) Ahh.. the fun days before I ever knew about Ubuntu... -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
