Tom Baker Doctor Who Prime Computer Ads

[MrNeil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJeu3LCo-6A


Ahh ! that amazining prime computer listen to that humming when its switched on

[DaveLEL]

Remember using a Prime computer when I was a student at Plymouth Polytechnic in 1988-1990, the operating system was PRIMOS, never got to see it so don't have a clue what model it was.
Compiled one of my first Pascal programs on there -- but even than is was showing its age 286/386 PC's where starting to out perform it.
Remember having to use PAFEC DOGS (Design Office Graphics System) on a graphics terminal to draw a simple box -- may have been ok with one user, but with 8 it was painfully slow.

Confess the only thing I used it for most of the time was as a print server -- while most students had to pay for printouts using a card system - the engineering students that had access to the prime also had access to a nice Agfa Postscript printer - and they could not work out how to change for it so it was free
The only slight down side was had to use TeX and LaTeX to create your documents -- saved me a few hundred pounds over three years.

Dave