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Early days, but might there be any prospect of seeing a BBC Store app on any of the Humax boxes in future? Or streaming one’s BBC Store purchases via Humax box iPlayer?
IMO it would have been better to miss Xmas than launch solely on W10.
I didn’t even realise such an app existed. Having said that it’s a rare event for me to use or download apps. I’m afraid the app revolution has sort of passed me by.
Quote:I didn’t even realise such an app existed.It doesn’t, yet, except for W10. That’s what annoys me. Not even a facility to access purchased programmes from existing iPlayer apps, apparently. When is a cloud not a flipping cloud.
Faust – 1 hour ago »
……. I’m afraid the app revolution has sort of passed me by.
Nothing new, except the shorted name, The first one I wrote was for the BBC micro. It was called a program at the time.
ITYM a programme.
JamesB – 1 hour ago »
ITYM a programme.
Certainly not! It was called a program to distinguish it from a programme. I wrote hundreds.
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Me too, only I wrote programmes. 😆
That’s the American spelling. In the early days, in the very British places of employment in which I laboured, we wrote programmes.
JamesB – 11 minutes ago »
That’s the American spelling. In the early days, in the very British places of employment in which I laboured, we wrote programmes.
Not me, So different. So were U an IBM man. ICL or perhaps Armdal (don’t know if that is spelt correctly)
So what did you program(me) in, Me 6502 assembler, COBOL, and APAB (if you were a =n SAP person? + BBC Basic and APL.
English Electric. KDF-9. Ah, Usercode…
di-di-di-dit di-di-di-dit di-di-di-dit…
Punched cards and magnetic tapes…
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