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I must be slipping! I find myself in complete agreement with Andy.
Andy! You have my vote! I even corrected a slight spelling mistake in your
posting!!
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
>
> How can you say that PC's aren't accesible. You've got every language under the Sun available
including BBC Basic. Just about any piece of software you want is
available for free. You have plug in slots with breakout boards,
expansion interfaces etc. Or commercial adpators if you cant roll your
own.
>
> There is no way that a PC cannot be considered "very accessible" for the
> user as you can do anything with it! And if we are referring to computers
> of days gone by, then the Apple II was more expandable and had more
> software than the BBC. If had 7 expansion slots, the source to its OS was
> printed in the manual. It had more expansion cards, more programmes and
> more everything! S100 based systems were more expandable if you wanted the Z80 route. And finally
when the BBC was popular, home built machines like Tangerines and Nascoms
were more accessible for hardware types.
BBC... over hyped dog popular with middle class parents who wanted
little Johnny to grow up knowing about computers. :-)
>
> 73 de Andy GM7HUD
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