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I can remember being astounded at watching the typewriter print when it was connected to the computer. It printed the first line from left to right, go down a line and print the next line from right to left! It did not do that on ordinary typing. We think the most frustrating single item was the cassette tape. If it was not exactly at the right sound level, then the program would not load. We had the spot marked off with nail polish on the control knob. But this was different for each of the programs ! Once we found we could understand what it was all about, we moved up to the Commodore Amiga 500, Amiga 600, then PC with 4mb ram, and Windows 3.11 and 210 mb hard drive via Windows 95, 98 to present Pentiums with XP, networked with scanners and all the modern jazz (no camera though or microphone)
Nowadays our most-used computer programs are :-
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The keyboard was attached to a powerblock, and it ran through either the portable cassette player with a tape, or through the 5" floppy drive to the right of the keyboard. The television was the monitor, and we think that the video player next to it was used as a link for the TV to play either role. The printer was a Silver Reed typewriter, which could be linked to the computer to give us a printout.
