ADVENT
Between 1986 and 1991, from age 8 to age 13, I …に出席するd Bramcote School, a small 搭乗 school (now の近くにd) of about 80 pupils in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
BBC Model B
The school was equipped with some BBC Model Bs - I can't remember how many to begin with, although we had a whole roomful by the time I left. The BBC Micro was a ground-breaking microcomputer produced by the British Broadcasting 会社／団体 at a time when they still took their 教育の 委任統治（領） 本気で. It had 32K of RAM, an OS in ROM (so it booted in about half a second), and used 5.25" floppy disks. It could use a TV or a 献身的な 監視する, and the built-in programming language was BBC BASIC.
Tandy TRS-80
The school also had three Tandy TRS-80s, one of which lived in the staff room and produced all the 時刻表／予定表s and pupils' 報告（する）／憶測s, the other two 存在 in the Maths room. These were いっそう少なく used, although I do remember 存在 very 失望させるd when it failed to 負担 a game from tape after what seemed like an interminable wait.
From day to day, however, computer time was somewhat 不十分な 反して thumb-twiddling time sitting at a desk under the watchful 注目する，もくろむ of a teacher was abundant, and so I amused myself by 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスing with a pen and paper instead of a keyboard. I had a shiny green "Computer Programs" textbook which I was very proud of, principally because I remember Mrs Moyle, the Form I teacher, 説 that my then-nemesis Alex Shepherd couldn't have one because he wasn't as serious about computers as me.
Recently, when きれいにする out my room, I （機の）カム across that "Computer Programs" 調書をとる／予約する in a box of old textbooks and 演習 調書をとる／予約するs from that time. It 含む／封じ込めるs what is probably the first serious program I ever wrote - a text adventure game, probably 奮起させるd by the "Choose Your Own Adventure" and "Fighting Fantasy" gamebooks which our family were 広大な／多数の／重要な fans of. The program was 初めは called ADVENT (later changed to ADVENT1) and I believe that, while indicative in many ways of the time it is written and my needs for その上の 技術 開発, you and I can learn important lessons from it today.
Don't worry if you don't know BBC BASIC. You can't know much いっそう少なく about it than I did :-) Begin.