Kids react to old computers

[Paul McKeown]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEn ... e=youtu.be

The Apple II (Europlus) was the very first computer I ever used... twin disks though, and a Pascal card!

[John Upham]

I first used an IBM System/360/65 to run a very trivial program using a Monte Carlo style algorithm to simulate physisorption onto graphite.

The 360 lived at the University College London Computer Centre.

Submitting a batch job required walking from Gordon Street to the centre and depositing a card deck with a technician.

The job cards were wrapped in two thick pieces of card held together with a rubber band or two.

A major event and expense was the upgrade of the core memory by 1 Mb in around 1979.

It cost around £1 per byte.

I believe it was replaced by an ICL 1900 running George as an OS.

[Ray Sayers]

I remember the excitement at our school when our teletype link to the Sunderland Polytechnic computer was replaced by the earliest Commodore Pet PCs.

I believe the casing was made from salvaged Tiger tanks.

[John Upham]

I believe the casing was made from salvaged Tiger tanks.

From which zoo?

[Ray Sayers]

I believe the casing was made from salvaged Tiger tanks.

From which zoo?

Kursk.