A trip down memory lane ...

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Here's the first data centre he managed!





And here's a photo of the new office PC the boss had ordered...



Hehehe just messing!

 

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<Grin> That first photo is a well-known spoof though....

Harry.

 

Does anybody else agree that the cable management in the second photo is brilliant?

 

Nah, its all wireless

 

Blimey! I wonder if those egg cups then at the top of the rack unit next to your man are some sort of Piconet?

I believe the OS of choice in this particular image was WW2 '45 (aka Wireless Workplace v2 1945 Edition). Hehehe!

 

YES! NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS, JUST A PURE, UNCENSORED, UNADULTARATED ABSOLUTELY 110% MEGA YES!!!!

 

I had a dragon 32k, BBC Micro, ZX81, ZX spectrum 48k, Atari ST, Amiga then I had a few consoles before getting a 486DX-2 with a whopping 48MB RAM

 

I was hammering out BASIC commands on a Timex-Sinclair (spinoff from the UK) TS1000

From there, it was the standard route of TRS-80's, Atari 800/XL/1200XL, 8086/88/x86. Funny -- even after all these years, nothing beats the joy I had punching out simplistic code on that membrane keyboard (at the ripe old age of 12!)

 

Aaah, good to see all the old favourites from the early days aren't forgotten

 

My potted history includes, Spectrum 48k, Amstrad CPC 464 (green screen), Amstrad CPC 664 (colour). Then it was onto PC's. My first PC was bought by my dad's work and was fairly cutting edge for the time. 386DX33 with 4MBram, 40MB HDD, a snip at &#163;1600. Various PC's and upgrades from that point onwards, too many too list really. But they all usually carried forwards components from the previous PC. Now I'm running a quad core monster with 8GB's of Ram and I'm still loving technology.

 

One i didn't add to the list was one i used at primary school, I cant remember what it is ... perhaps one of you will know?

There were a custom computer from RM (labelled as RM) before they did ibm/compats in the 80's

all-in-keyboard unit, floppy disk 3.5" i think , w/ separate, monitor ran basic.

Andi

 

Found it

the disk drive must have been external

it was the RM Link 480Z



Using the Zilog Z80 processor


.............. it was utter cr*p even by those days.

Andi

 

I wonder what the wheel is for ... for the hamster to run around in!

Andi

 

This is a well known spoof picture. Most of the background stuff is taken from a museum photo of an old shipboard panel.

Harry.

 

This is the computer we currently use at Royal Mail

 

Personally speaking the first computer I used was a ZX81 at school but we also had a PC that used that rare thing called a B drive (you had to load the OS from A and B drive on 5 1/4" floppies) then we moved on to BBC micros (in various memories 16k, 32k and I think 64k).

My computers started off with a VIC 20 then onto a Spectrum 16k and then onto a C64, and then I moved onto PC's.

486 used in my shop to run the EPOS x2 (both running Windows NT and both needed replaced during the big Y2K scare), a p100, then onto a p200 with a 5GB hard drive (I paid big money for that because it had only just came out) then came 4 pcs from Time computers of various chips, memories, hard drives etc. then some from ICON (1 P4 and a couple of AMD Durons) then there are the Laptops - 2 Toshibas, 2 Samsungs and a Packard Bell.

I've still got most of the PCs which I'm using for repairing/upgrading and setting up a home network (although I'm having problems with it at the moment but I shall overcome)