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With the launch of the Raspberry Pi last week I thought you might like this picture of the white-hot technology of 1982. Jim Anderson, head of Physics at KGS (and later Director of Education) with one of the three (?) computers in the school at the time: a Commodore PET with a cassette player instead of a hard disk. Tell that to young folk nowadays and they wouldn't believe you.
[But Leslie, you'll remember as I do, that just before that there was a single computer from Aberdeen University that went round schools in the Highlands and Islands, and we'd feverishly make marks on punch cards for programs that we'd get one chance to try executing on the few days it would be here. The year this happened for me the computer was broken and we never got to let our badly written programs crash :-( - Steven]
Picture added on 06 March 2012 at 18:33
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KGS 1973 - 2013
KGS 1973 - 2013
I remember it well. And the cutting edge programs that took days to prepare did complex and useful tasks like adding all the numbers between 1 and 10 together. I suppose it explains why we've been able to thole Windows for all these years: nothing Microsoft could throw at us could ever be quite as soul-destroying.
Added by Leslie Burgher on 06 March 2012
We did computer studies at KGS in the early 1970s but never had a real computer that I can remember. I left school in 1974!
Added by Elaine Sutherland (Allen) on 08 March 2012
Jim Anderson appears, in his later capacity, in picture #23737, but his twin sibling seems to be missing.
Added by Ian Hourston on 03 April 2012
I was never good at Physics but Jim was one of my teachers at KGS.
Added by Neil Hourston on 15 April 2014
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