RIP RICK DICKINSON
BBC.co.uk 3hrs ago
Rick Dickinson, the designer of the Sinclair computers, has died in the US while receiving treatment for cancer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43907248
Background
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666
Extract
"The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: £125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or £175 for the 48k model."
You started out with printf "Hello World"
And today you've got the TSB with
TSB boss Paul Pester has told the BBC the bank is "on our knees" after six days of computer chaos, but pledged "we will get up and come back fighting".
They were blaming a lack of COBOL skills this morning - wish I'd kept my old notes.
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More likely a lack of skills in whoever was upgrading from the legacy COBOL, it seemed to tick along quite nicely for about 20yrs until ops were outsourced to Bangalore Upgradings and Internet Service Providings Ltd
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Have they tried reaching round the back and giving his connector a jiggle.
Trust the bbc to get the price and the spec wrong, mine was a 1k kit. Strange we were only talking about them a couple of weeks ago.
Trust the bbc to get the price and the spec wrong, mine was a 1k kit. Strange we were only talking about them a couple of weeks ago.
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Can you image the BBC doing that these days? To educate, entertain and inform was the brief they had, not blowing the license on useless pundits and 'stars' wages.brimson25 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:35 amThis was my first love:
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... r-Compact/