So my keyboard is dying. I'm typing away and suddenly it will mss a letter. At first I thik it's me but then I realse some of the keys are't working - itermttently.
So I looked up here and there and ordered a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 (!) which I've just installed.
It has a button and if you press it, the Microsoft calculator runs automatically!
How cool is that? thinks Barry.
Then a very distant bell rings. Barry remembers back in the early 80s, when he worked selling computers, that the Apricot (or perhaps the Sirius?) had a keyboard with a calculator on, which goes to show - that sometimes it takes 25 years for Microsoft to catch up with what other people were doing.
I remember we used to recommend DEC Rainbows to customers - don't buy an IBM PC, they're rubbish. Rainbows are streets ahead in terms of computing power, have excellent software suites and are cheaper! (A teeny bit.)
No one listened in our shop nor in any other shops either and DEC discontinued the Rainbow and the IBM became the standard. Ho hum.
I remember keyboards like that... What's the point in buying a computer then plugging a calculator into it?
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
The word Apricot rings a bell with me. I remember when we had a new BBC computer at primary school. If I remember right it had orange buttons and a black screen with white coloured letters... oh the days
Ahh the good old BBC pc's. Loved them for 2 reasons.
1st Elite.
2nd 10 print "hello"
Those were the days. No C# or .net and ado objects.
After owning three PC's, that have crashed and died, (due to viruses ) I'm finally about to give in and buy an Apple Mac!
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