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  1. #bbc #archimedes #britishschool #education

    I found a school journal from 1993, when I was ten years old.

    In it, were the following screenshots for operating a BBC Micro computer and/or an Archimedes computer.

    In 1993, computer literacy was still coming into its own; software packages like spreadsheets and word processors hadn't gone mainstream -- certainly not in terms of ICT (Information Computer Technology) at pre-GCSE level.

    But we did spend a lot of time in school learning about #Pendown, which was a very capable word processor:

    youtu.be/AURsz3eHbD8

    I don't recall using Revelation to do anything, but it existed:

    computinghistory.org.uk/det/21

    According to the forms in my journal, I didn't get very far.

    Says it all, really... I was only ten.

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    ✧ Alan Wace ✧

    Alan Wace (13 July 1879 β€“ 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt, and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace argued against the established scholarly view that Minoan Crete h...

    #BritishSchool #Athens #Mycenae #MinoanCrete #Wace #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wac

  3. π—ͺπ—œπ—žπ—œπ—£π—˜π——π—œπ—”'𝗦 π—™π—˜π—”π—§π—¨π—₯π—˜π—— 𝗔π—₯π—§π—œπ—–π—Ÿπ—˜

    ✧ Alan Wace ✧

    Alan Wace (13 July 1879 β€“ 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt, and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace argued against the established scholarly view that Minoan Crete h...

    #BritishSchool #Athens #Mycenae #MinoanCrete #Wace #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wac

  4. π—ͺπ—œπ—žπ—œπ—£π—˜π——π—œπ—”'𝗦 π—™π—˜π—”π—§π—¨π—₯π—˜π—— 𝗔π—₯π—§π—œπ—–π—Ÿπ—˜

    ✧ Alan Wace ✧

    Alan Wace (13 July 1879 β€“ 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt, and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace argued against the established scholarly view that Minoan Crete h...

    #BritishSchool #Athens #Mycenae #MinoanCrete #Wace #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wac

  5. π—ͺπ—œπ—žπ—œπ—£π—˜π——π—œπ—”'𝗦 π—™π—˜π—”π—§π—¨π—₯π—˜π—— 𝗔π—₯π—§π—œπ—–π—Ÿπ—˜

    ✧ Alan Wace ✧

    Alan Wace (13 July 1879 β€“ 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt, and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace argued against the established scholarly view that Minoan Crete h...

    #BritishSchool #Athens #Mycenae #MinoanCrete #Wace #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wac