Date   : Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:10:58 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Basic & BBC Basic

At 23:15 03/04/2006, Annihilannic wrote:

>I think that's one good reason why programmers (or potential 
>programmers) should be made to go back to basics (heheh) so that 
>they can learn the value of a byte... and why they shouldn't attach 
>a 4MB .BMP to an email... etc.

Or even a 54 Kb MS Word Document that turns out to have six lines of 
pure text in it (typed all in capitals, yet!)

Or especially even one potential employer that sent me a map at last 
minute.. in MS Power Point!!  I had to go find then install the damn 
thing just to read it, when I'd have been happy with a .jpg, or even 
a simple hyperlink to an online "how to find us" ..


But even I forget about sizes of things these days - being too 
familiar with "modern" software I obtained a 1Gb MMC card for my 
GoMMC ... Now, I look at my huge stack of ~300 BBC floppy discs, and 
realise that even if they were all full, and including restoring a 17 
year old backup of my econet fileserver (10Mb HDD) they won't take up 
but a fraction of the space available to me now..

And I still need to get my econet set back up... it's desk space not 
disc space that bothers me now!!  (Anybody know why a A7000 won't 
display anything on my 17" acer tft monitor, either with or without a 
vga switch box?)


Rob