That poor system/36

It's called 'dumbing down' :-( To get this mildly on-topic, I was talking to some friends over the weekend and the subject of the BBC micro came up. That machine, which was deisnged as an educational machine had a good implementation of BASIC with named procedueres, multi-line functions and local variables; a built-in assembler ; A user port (8 bit I/O, half a 6522, basically), and a ADC port (4 channel 10 bit). It was interesting that 25 years ago (or so), an introductory computing course would be expected to include programming (including the ideas of structured programs and some assembler) and some simple interfacing. Now most introductory computing courses seem to teach how to use the latest bloatware and nothing more :-( -tony