While I'm sure interoperability between computer platforms is much easier now that there's really only 2-3 options, I do miss the choice and wide variance of platforms during the home computer industry's early years.Īs a composer for commercials I was always doing sessions and spending way too much at the studio. We also had an Atari ST later on in Music, running Cubase, though our teacher preferred sequencing on a Yamaha SY85. They were mostly used for tech drawing (AutoCAD). Our school also had about a dozen Acorn Archimedes systems, which were purchased in about 1990 along with our first inkjet printer (HP 500) which was worth something like AU$2K at the time (how things change). I hate to think how many hours I racked up on those machines. my family couldn't afford a computer (either that or it wasn't a priority back then), but because my father was a teacher he could "borrow" one over the school holidays.
We were still using them in 1993-94 alongside various DOS and Win3.1 286s/386s/486s for programming BASIC mostly. Holy crap! You're the first person I've ever heard reference an Acorn.The Acorn's weren't a big seller outside of the UK (where they were huge in the 80s), but the Tasmanian State Education Department bucked the trend through the rest of Australia (Apple IIs and Macs) and bought 100s if not 1000s of BBC Model B micros and Compacts (separate CPU/keyboard model) throughout the 80s.
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