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Currys / PC World ‘Know-How’'ransom' like?

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  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    Samsonite1 wrote: »
    You probably didn't have much choice! ;)

    How very true, the only way to get any performance out of a 1mhz chip.
    :D
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
  • tronator
    tronator Posts: 2,859 Forumite
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    Gavin78 wrote: »
    The EU want to stop the general public from building their own pc's.
    almillar wrote: »
    News to me - any more info on this?

    I was about to ask the same question. Sounds to me like some FUD from some euro skeptics...
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    Gavin78 wrote: »
    The EU want to stop the general public from building their own pc's.

    Really? Jeeze...
  • onomatopoeia99
    onomatopoeia99 Posts: 7,218 Forumite
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    Strider590 wrote: »
    My mate runs the IT systems for many of the local schools, he was given a comp science graduate to help his daily tasks.
    This individual didn't know how to format a HDD, install windows AND tried to plug a USB keyboard into a parallel port.

    I mean........ This is basic stuff, anyone remotely interested in their subject should know this a long time before going near any educational establishment.

    None of that stuff is computer science and so certainly shouldn't be taught as part of a computer science degree.
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  • onomatopoeia99
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    Fightsback wrote: »
    I taught myself 6809E assembly when I was 13 ;)
    Dragon 32?

    I taught myself 6502 when I was 14, but had a computer with an amazing assembler built into the BASIC ROM. Z80 before that. but the Spectrums had to be sent back to Sinclair under guaranteed so often that I gave up and got a refund (six in a year?).
    Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 2023
  • Samsonite1
    Samsonite1 Posts: 572 Forumite
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    onomatopoeia99 wrote: »
    Dragon 32?

    I taught myself 6502 when I was 14, but had a computer with an amazing assembler built into the BASIC ROM. Z80 before that. but the Spectrums had to be sent back to Sinclair under guaranteed so often that I gave up and got a refund (six in a year?).

    I did play with Spectrums as a kid, but my first serious computer was a 6800 based Atari - had it for 10 years! Learned programming, graphics, music production on it :)
    To err is human, but it is against company policy.
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    News to me - any more info on this?
    It wouldn't surprise me, they want to stop people working on their own cars too.
    It would be pretty silly to stop people building PCs
    Sounds to me like some FUD from some euro skeptics...

    There you go. How to start a rumour.
    Let's not talk about this again until someone actually shows us some evidence about what 'THEY' want to do...
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