8 Oct
2008
8 Oct
'08
4:19 a.m.
I remember taking the first Apple Lisa in the UK to be demonstrated on
Tomorrows World.
They had me in the studio as the program went out live.
I sat on an unused display block about three feet off camera in case of
problems.
Presenters: Kiren Prendeville (photographic memory), Maggie Philbin
(very nervous), Judith Hann( Nice lady - brought me a coffee!!)
Rod Smallwood
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On 08/10/2008 01:47, Andrew Burton wrote:
I remember Tomorrows World (and various presenters...
Philippa
Forrester, Judith someone, Howard Stableford etc.) and having various
things demonstrated on it.
Judith Hann. I don't remember Philippa Forrester being on it but I do
remember Maggie Philbin.
Perhaps the flashing-square software was in the earlier era of Raymond
Baxter and James Burke (which I also remember).
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
8 Oct
8 Oct
12:15 p.m.
New subject: [personal] RE: Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic Computers )
Judith Hann. I don't remember Philippa Forrester
being on it but I do
remember Maggie Philbin.
....... Philippa Forrester
Much later, probably almost in the dying days of the programme.
Mike.
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Subject: [personal] RE: Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic
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>I remember taking the first Apple Lisa in the UK to be demonstrated on
> Tomorrows World.
> They had me in the studio as the program went out live.
> I sat on an unused display block about three feet off camera in case of
> problems.
>
> Presenters: Kiren Prendeville (photographic memory), Maggie Philbin
> (very nervous), Judith Hann( Nice lady - brought me a coffee!!)
>
>
>
> Rod Smallwood
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull
> Sent: 08 October 2008 08:22
> To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic
> Computers )
>
> On 08/10/2008 01:47, Andrew Burton wrote:
>> I remember Tomorrows World (and various presenters... Philippa
>> Forrester, Judith someone, Howard Stableford etc.) and having various
>> things demonstrated on it.
>
Judith Hann. I don't remember Philippa Forrester
being on it but I do
remember Maggie Philbin.
>
> Perhaps the flashing-square software was in the earlier era of Raymond
> Baxter and James Burke (which I also remember).
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
>
>
>
>
9 Oct
9 Oct
6:04 a.m.
2008/10/8 Rod Smallwood <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk>
I remember taking the first Apple Lisa in the UK to be
demonstrated on
Tomorrows World.
They had me in the studio as the program went out live.
I sat on an unused display block about three feet off camera in case of
problems.
Presenters: Kiren Prendeville (photographic memory), Maggie Philbin
(very nervous), Judith Hann( Nice lady - brought me a coffee!!)
Hehe, I remember telling my 'O' Level Computer Studies teacher about that
program the next day, trying to explain the idea of the mouse/GUI combo.
His response?
'It'll never catch on'
--
Pete Edwards
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" -
Niels
Bohr
12 Oct
12 Oct
12:58 p.m.
I remember
taking the first Apple Lisa in the UK to be demonstrated on
Tomorrows World.
They had me in the studio as the program went out live.
I sat on an unused display block about three feet off camera in case of
problems.
Presenters: Kiren Prendeville (photographic memory), Maggie Philbin
(very nervous), Judith Hann( Nice lady - brought me a coffee!!)
Hehe, I remember telling my 'O' Level Computer Studies teacher about that
program the next day, trying to explain the idea of the mouse/GUI combo.
His response?
'It'll never catch on' 
13 Oct
13 Oct
4:34 a.m.
Philip Belben wrote:
You had a teacher for O-level computer studies? Hard
luck! A friend
and I studied it on our own. This may have been why we did so well (I
got an A and he a B). Or maybe it was luck. Most candidates were about
3 generations of technology ahead of the examiners, so grades were
pretty random, I think...
Me too... Although the school I went to had a small "computer room"
full of BBC Micros, I wasn't allowed to use any of them because they
didn't have a computing teacher, or indeed any spare teacher who could
just supervise. So I did my computing O-grade studies at home with my
ZX Spectrum (careful examination of the "rules" said that it didn't
actually matter *what* you wrote the practical code on), and submitted
it as Spectrum BASIC, pseudocode and roughly transcribed by hand into
BBC Basic with "This isn't tested but might be about right, barring any
Atom-isms" caveats. The actual report I wrote up on a Sirius 1 borrowed
from the company my Dad worked for. I was more proud
of the homebrew
printer port and printing software for the Spectrum than the
coursework.
That was my first "banging hardware" code, really, and it worked quite
well. I just used the ROM routines to detokenise the code, and rattled
it out to the printer instead of the screen.
Oh, and I got a 2. Not bad considering how incredibly lazy and
disinclined to do any school work I was (still am, really).
As a sidenote, when I went up north to visit my Mum a couple of weeks
ago, most of the 1970s-built main building of the school had been
knocked down. The week before, they'd run a "last tour" before the JCBs
moved in. I kind of wish I'd gone. I know a guy rescued a bunch of Mac
Classics and Acorn Archimedeses though ;-)
Gordon
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