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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Kinda similar computer-history to me, there, genhos!
---------------------------------------- Started with the Atari 2600, then moved to the ZX81, then onto the Spectrum 48k and shortly afterwards the plastic-key version of the same. It was the Spectrum that got me into coding, as the computer magazines I used to get had various suggested games you could make yourself, so I'd always try my own too. After the Spectrum, which I had for a few years, I went up to the Amiga A500, which had an external disk-drive added, along with the upgrade to 1MB of RAM and the Action Replay mkIII cartridge. I kept the Amiga for a good few years, trusty machine it was, until a year after I started Uni. The P266MMX chip had just been released, so I made my first venture into Intel PCs with a friend-built 32MB P233MMX with a 2MB S3 Virge GPU & AWE32-compatible sound-card, and a 3.2GB HDD. This was considerably easier to do coursework on, after a year of using the Amiga... After a while, as games started to become more demanding, I then built my first PC - a Duron 850MHz. I believe it was this that I switched allegiances between the original SETI@Home, United-Devices (one of the original medical-research projects, I think), and distributed.net RC5. After the Duron 850MHz came an Athlon XP2600+ which I kept for a long time, still doing SETI@Home occasionally, until finally doing this upgrade to the current gaming PC - one of the original i7-920's (now overclocked to 3.36GHz per core), have upgraded from the original 6GB to 12GB RAM, have upgraded from the original 768MB GTX-285 to a 2GB GTX-460. The current incarnation of the gaming PC should last me a while, although I'm always looking around for potential upgrades (although I'm trying to let my bank balance recover a bit).  |
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Former Member
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I started with a BBC Model B, playing Elite and writing programs with the awesome BBC Basic. The first time I wielded my philips screwdriver on a PC build was for a 12MHz 286. I really pushed the boat out and went for 640KB of memory! Those computers are long gone, but I still have my trusty screwdriver.
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in the lunchtime update:
----------------------------------------  fosking moves above 400,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #387,296 Soong moves above 10,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #9,996 Wicksman moves above 5,400 in the Points Rankings to #5,388 fosking moves above 200,000 in the Results Rankings to #181,140 |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There was a lab of 25MHz computers in Uni, they had the old monochrome black/green screens, and when you booted them up, you could go for lunch and come back just in time for them to be ready to use.
----------------------------------------As I only used them for telnet-connectivity (for talkers & MUDs), they were perfect as absolutely no-one used that lab, so you could be guaranteed a computer! |
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ooooooooooo Soong, Elite! Another game that I spent hours and hours playing, superb.
----------------------------------------My dualie also spent some time over at UD before I eventually made my way here. Also spent many hours with various programming magazines, entering line after line of code. INPUT was a good one as it had programs for various machines, ZX81, Spectrum, BBC, Dragon32 amongst others. |
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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thought the problem with my newest PC was the GC, it wasn't, GC was but a symptom, I've had full Mobo Failure
---------------------------------------- It's being picked up tommorow, won't be back till eta: Tuesday  Always problems, sometimes I feel like banging my head against the wall, ohh well, nothing to do but wait Just fired up the Dual Core to try and compensate a little (plus the replacement GC, might as well put that to some use). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.   |
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Uh-oh. That's not good TMC. Hopefully it won't be too expensive to get fixed.
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My introduction to computing was a 30min General Studies option in the VIth form at school. Early '70s so lots of talk not much computing. As a treat we had fortnightly after school trips to the Computer Department at Warwick Uni where we got to code the programs we had written - in Algol I think. I recall trying to write a program to allocate classes to rooms based on size and subject. I never did get it to work.
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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Uh-oh. That's not good TMC. Hopefully it won't be too expensive to get fixed. Thankfully it's under warrenty, so no cost, just wasted time and a lot of frustration... Thankfull for small mercy's |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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...where we got to code the programs we had written - in Algol I think. I did a bit of COBOL and FORTRAN in University, they weren't much fun at the time... |
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