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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701
I'd much rather the school told me if my boy was spending too much time on the computer.
I had my first computer when I was 3, but I don't feel like Ive used them too much, I don't NEED a computer.
Honest.
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I got my Beeb when I was 10, but before that it was me and a friend who used to show the teachers at school how to use the one they had there ... usually the complaint was 'it's broken' and the solution was 'plug the monitor in'.
My mum used to complain I was on it too much, but I don't think I used it as much as kids with PCs do now because there was a lot less you could do with it - no internet or networking of any kind, except at school when I was a bit older and it became fun to enslave other machines on the Econet or hack the school teletext system
I did once spend an entire evening on Elite, following a strategy printed in a magazine (Micro User, I think). I managed to get up to deadly and had military lasers on all sides. But that was unusual, even I had a headache after that. Football Manager was the other game me and my Beeb-friend used to play for hours at a time.