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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.
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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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).
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.
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
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.