Lets talk tech!

So as a exercise today I worked out something in relation to my life. My use and ownership of computers.

My first use of a computer was a BBC master at school a machine that was old when I was young and is now deader than dead as Acorn are no longer with us. It ran DOS of a sort and we had one lesson using the computer a week. I remember it was a dog it was slow but it did leave a lasting impression that there was something magical about computers.

Next came another machine in use at English schools where called RM Nimbus machines running the dog of windows 3.01 it was interesting to use this was the birth of the Net as we started in 1995 and the first time most of us used a IBM compatible PC. I was strange suddenly there was this whole world beyond our schools network. But technology rushed on and on so that year I got a PC myself.

It was Christmas and we bought a high powered and fast machine with enough space to store all my work. It was a Packard Bell machine with a huge 64 MB of Ram a supper fast 50mhz Processor and the largest hard-drive of 500mb, windows 3.11 was the default install, I really cant remember this much it was large and very noisy and it was pre-net connection (at home anyway).

Next came another Packard Bell this time in 1999 why it took so long to upgrade I still cant explain but as I did not buy it well you get the idea. It was a massive upgrade it sported a 500mhz processor, 256mb of Ram a huge 10GB HDD and a 64mb graphics card and was loaded with windows 98se and above all that a Net connection at last a gateway to the web.

I think thtas a good place to leave it