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Apple 2e |
| The first PC I ever played with was a mates Apple 2e. Absolutely |
| fantastic machine at the time. If I could get some of the games |
| that machine had for my current PC, I would still play them. |
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Tandy TRS80 |
| Next was a Tandy TRS80 (known in the business as a 'trash 80'). |
| I wrote my first solo programs on this thing in about 1980, and |
| they worked! |
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Mini-computer |
| Got to play with a friends, fathers, machine on loan from |
| his university. This was my first experience of a 'mini-computer'. |
| Boy was this baby fast! Used an eight inch floppy drive though! |
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Fujitsu M780 |
| In my second job I was introduced to the world |
| of Mainframes, really big computers. |
| It was a Fujitsu M780. I loved it. |
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Olivetti 8086 |
| I drove (and maintained) the first Olivetti 8086 PC to make it |
| into my workplace in 1986. No networks then, but I got involved in the first attempt to network them and was heavily involved in |
| the first (card based) attempts to get them to emulate a terminal and connect to the 'Main-Frame'. |
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Toshiba 'laptop' |
| I got to use several of the early Toshiba 'laptops' or 'portables' |
| while my work PC developed into a 286, I still had a 'dumb |
| terminal' on my desk, the PC was a shared resource. I remember having to book time-slots to use the one 386 we had on the floor. |
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NEC Powermate Portable |
| My first PC was an NEC Powermate Portable, 80286. A brilliant machine that I could carry (read 'lug', at 8 kilograms) around |
| and pretend I owned a portable PC. I eventually gave it to a friend with no PC, he quickly upgraded and uses the NEC as a |
| footrest currently, I expect he will find a better footrest soon and the NEC will find a final resting place. |
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Amdahl5995 IBM9600 Hitachi GS8664 |
| By now of course I was a mainframe bigot and continued to |
| associate with an Amdahl5995, IBM9600 and Hitachi GS8664. |
| I was hooked. |
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Toshiba 310CDT |
| Since then I have owned a number of X86 based PC's, all of which I have built myself. A while ago I made a small investment |
| in a second-hand laptop. When I started travelling I found it invaluable and have since invested more seriously in a decent |
| Toshiba lappy. It is my lifeline to the rest of the world and my development/experimentation machine as well. |
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Celeron 333 |
| I've recently bought a second hand desktop 333 Celeron quite cheap. I've networked it to my laptop as a file server. The plan |
| is to use them both as Linux boxes, networked and sharing |
| devices with ADSL constant internet connection serving this site. Just got to find the time. |
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Dual Athlon 1.67 Ghz |
| Just fnished building
a new system. Spec included SMP, 1/2 Gig RAM, SCSI
disk, wireless LAN. |
| Machine runs SUSE Linux
7.2 and is primarily used as a file server. |
| What a waste! |
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