What school computer departments used to look like

April 3rd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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I was looking on my old secondary schools website and I came across some old pictures of the computer department. It started out with a Altair 8080b which is now in a museum! We had several Pertec drives which used to crash constantly due to the dusty air in the school.

Each drive platter in the Pertec weighed about 45kg and when the drive heads crashed it sounded like a car crash. It was a very slow system and we used to sit waiting for a single compile to finish. The right hand picture is my class sitting at the terminals, the small boy in the middle at the front is me.

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