alt Hacker News> As a child in the 80s I was exceedingly nerdy. My loving and generous parents did nothing to discourage that. Indeed they encouraged my nascent interest in computers by regularly updating my ZX computers (80->81->Spectrum->48K etc.) and then Acorn computers. All gratefully received.
Yeah, I reminisced a bit in the thread about his death 5 years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28564456
I did also get to play around in a C5 that they had at a secondary school that my father was teaching at (either Bassingbourn Village College or Collenswood School in Stevenage), must have been some time in the late 80s.
> There's only so much bullying one person can take. I was used to being laughed at for my fashion choices, my social awkwardness and my lack of sporting prowess.
School in the UK in the late 80s was brutal.
That cane was no fun. It was around for one year when I was in juniors before it got banned. I can remember as clear as the day at the start of September us new boys were taken into the toilet by the headmaster (lovely guy actually) and given a demonstration of what waited for us should we mis-behave. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was in the charts and it was a perfect experience of 1980s english schooling.