Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-12 20:04]: >> James Grabham wrote: >>> You're all really old, I cant remember before my familys 486 with DOS >>> 6.22 and win 3.11 for workgroups (I was born in 1992!!) lol I know >>> my Mum had a computer before that, but I cant remember it - I found >>> its dot matrix printer in the loft a while ago though. >>> >> Ahh, if it came with a Dot Matrix printer it would be an Amstrad PCW. >> Ahh, those were the days. I loved Amstrad (Locomotive) Logo on CPM. > ** end quote [Rob Beard] > > I took a lot of stick when the Amstrad CPC464 came out and I bought one > to replace my Spectrum. I started with a ZX81, then Spectrum, but the > Amstrad really got me into using computers seriously.
I had an Amstrad CPC464 for a while too. After my Atari died we got another one and that died too. This was in less than a year. We then got a Spectrum +3 for a week but my dad thought the quality was rubbish (not sure what he was expecting!) and then he got a CPC464 with green screen monitor. That's what got me into programming. We then upgraded to a CPC664 which was luxury loading games off disc. Still with a green screen monitor though :-( > Before that it was > just games and programming. I used the Amstrad with a ROM box loaded > with wonderful software from Arnor to run a sailing club database and > print off labels - much easier than a hand bander thing we had been > using. I upgraded to a CPC6128 to get me through my degree with the aid > of CP/M with Logo, Supercalc and Borland Turbo Pascal (helpfully copied > onto 3" disks for my be a local computer store). I also got some work > done on my car in return for helping out a mechanic friend with his PCW. That sounds cool. I remember seeing adverts for ROM boxes but didn't understand that much about them at the time and couldn't afford them. I vaguely remember the old Datel Electronics adverts for things like 256K memory upgrades and 'silicon discs'. > Protext (all hail the best word processor ever written) followed me onto > my Amiga (mouse, GUI, eeek!) and I used that and DPaint to produce a > 'brochure' for the IBM lab I was working in at the time. They wanted to > do one, but when they talked to the in marketing department and looked > into in house publishing decided it couldn't be done economically. I > came in the following day with a printout from my Amiga and costings > from a local printers that changed their minds. What did IBM know about > getting work done on computers?! > > Then this horrible x86 architecture with DOS and Windows started getting > popular and took all the fun out of computers. Praise be to Linux, > without which I would have given up on computers long ago. > :-) I'd say PC's started getting a bit boring with the advent of Plug & Play. Then everyone was buying Packard Bell PCs from PC World and becoming 'experts' over night. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
