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Commodore Amiga 1200, Commodore 1802 display, Amiga mouse, Competition Pro joystick, Hitachi Super Woofer 3D boombox. Image NOT sponsored by Coca Cola.
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Playing with my Lensbaby Muse with the Double Optic Glass, x4 macro lens and doing some fun stuff in GIMP. No bad for a snowy day today!
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.
My first personal computer... Timex Sinclair 1000
Programs were loaded/saved via cassette tape. I learned how to write programs in BASIC.
SEE IT IN ACTION: oldcomputers.net/popscits1000.html
Find your first computer: oldcomputers.net/index.html
The IBM 5100 portable PC was released in 1975 for $20,000 ( oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html . The 5100 is the grandfather of the 5150 ( oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.htm )
It still works! Now to try and remember how you load files off Microdrive... there's also a mod my eldest brother did for me to get composite video out. That's the cable snaking off at the top. Note the Psion software starter pack - whatever happened to them?!
Arguably the most important part of the ZX Spectrum was the BASIC programming manual which taught a generation of schoolkids something of the fundamentals of coding.
NOW WHERE THE FRICK IS MY RASPBERRY PI!?
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).