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My first personal computer... Timex Sinclair 1000
Programs were loaded/saved via cassette tape. I learned how to write programs in BASIC.
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We have Linux! We managed to put Linux onto our old computer without too much trouble. Reading, uploading and description of this photo were all done on Linux. We are now spending more time on this old computer than our brand new computer.
It's so old that it's an event when it's on. So much of an event that I had to put spinning warning lights beside it to show how important it truly was.
Not the first computer I ever used (I think that would be my brother's KIM1), but this was the first computer we had in the house (see below).
Home-made computer Top Trump-style cards from... oooh guess the year... this is pre-ZX Spectrum and the Apple /// should be a clue.
The only one of these I ever used was the PET, though I think my brother-in-law had a Nascom and I have vague recollections of someone having a UK101. I remember I really wanted an Acorn System 1 for some mad reason.
Optimus-branded Pentium-class PC, 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, Soundblaster sound card, DOS 6.22, Duke Nukem 3D + Philips monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Fetch was one of the first outright awesome FTP clients for any platform, and Noah still had version 2.0 installed on the machine. Again, this was a good thing, since it was the way that I was able to get his files off of the machine, and able to get a secure deletion utility *onto* the machine to get rid of any trace of his files.