, but awwwww 
LOL Scotty , but awwwww
, but awwwww 
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I am one of them she's only texting me cause she want's something, so i prefer too have it switched off it does seem to wind everyone up though and when i do switch it on i have about 30 texts, i can't be arsed with the things tbh, i prefer the landline
I am one of them
she's only texting me cause she want's something, so i prefer too have it switched off it does seem to wind everyone up though and when i do switch it on i have about 30 texts, i can't be arsed with the things tbh, i prefer the landline
Sprout
It`s daft now but at the time I was almost froze if something moved on the screen.
It`s daft now but at the time I was almost froze if something moved on the screen.
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i prefer the landline
Actually I'm a bit like that too. It's easier to speak than to wait for the cursor to move to the next letter to text
My first PC cost me ÂĢ1300 or thereabouts, sometime around the late eighties? Can't remember but it was a 486 and the hard drive was approx 285 MB
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My first PC cost me ÂĢ1300 or thereabouts, sometime around the late eighties? Can't remember but it was a 486 and the hard drive was approx 285 MB
I paid ÂĢ1200 for an Olivetti 286 with 1mb of ram. It looked nice though 
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Olivetti 286
oooh.. another blast from the past..
god I am such a geek... I am getting off remembering all these old pc's I had totally forgotten about!
I first worked with computers in 1978. It was a Honeywell mainframe and I was a programmer. The programs were punched on cards in those days, and disc drives were external and looked like top-loading washing machines.
The first home computer I had was an Amiga. Can't remember exactly when, but it was probably the late 80s. Didn't get my first home PC till 1999, though.
The first home computer I had was an Amiga. Can't remember exactly when, but it was probably the late 80s. Didn't get my first home PC till 1999, though.
How the hell do you remember the detail of these things?!? I do, just, remember my first computer, bought in 1989, alongside my first microwave oven, but god alone knows what make it was etc. etc. (and I only remember that because it was the year I left my husband!)
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How the hell do you remember the detail of these things?!?
It's 'cos I is a geek, innit?
I don't remember the details til one of the greater geeks posts the name & model..
then I get all excited... riding a geek high in the slipstream of the greater geekness!
then I get all excited... riding a geek high in the slipstream of the greater geekness!
Oh, I just remembered that my Amiga was an Amiga 500.
We got one for Christmas in 1984, an Acorn Electron, complete with noisy tape player to load programmes on to it.
Acorn!! 
there's another one!!!
there was definitely a fruit & nut theme in the early days!
there's another one!!!
there was definitely a fruit & nut theme in the early days!
Oh we had an Amiga 500 well before the home pc as well. Ibforgot about that cos I forgot it was a computer and think of it as an early games console (it might be a commodore 64 though, it's in the loft and I'm not going up there to check!)
aww... and now I fondly remembering all the old word processing programs..
Wang, Multimate, Wordstar, Wordperfect (my father in law still uses wordperfect & refuses to move over to Word)....
One of the places I worked at didn't see the point in buying one of these new fangled personal computers.. but I was fed up typing sales quotes on a bleedin typewriter... with carbon copies!!!
So the manager bought me an Amstrad PCW... a computer that only does word processing! hahahaha!
Wang, Multimate, Wordstar, Wordperfect (my father in law still uses wordperfect & refuses to move over to Word
).... One of the places I worked at didn't see the point in buying one of these new fangled personal computers.. but I was fed up typing sales quotes on a bleedin typewriter... with carbon copies!!!
So the manager bought me an Amstrad PCW... a computer that only does word processing! hahahaha!
quote:Oh, I just remembered that my Amiga was an Amiga 500.
We had one of those
Wow wordstar and wordperfect a blast from the past, the old Amber screen and the dot matrix printers.
I bought my first PC second hand from radio rentals in 1995 
I got the tinterweb in 1998 and haven't been off it since
I got the tinterweb in 1998 and haven't been off it since 
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I bought my first PC second hand from radio rentals in 1995 I got the tinterweb in 1998 and haven't been off it since
I Got my first one from Granada in 94 as one of them rent to buy ones. Had window 3.11 on it and a TV card in it. Traded it in after a year for a compaq which I ran till 2008 with a few modifications along the way. Got tinternet in 2007.
Before the home PC, did anyone have one of these games consoles that played table tennis and squash? It used to go 'beep...beep' as the ball was hit with the bats
Yeah we had one of them...can't remember what it was called though....only that it got faster!
Lol Scotty you are so funny
I bought my first laptop six and a half years ago like Scotty I had not a clue I could not even type
I could not even type
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it cost 3/6
it cost 3/6
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We got one for Christmas in 1984, an Acorn Electron, complete with noisy tape player to load programmes on to it.
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My Dad got an Acorn Electron, I remember playing Chuckie Egg on it, and a game called Twin Kingdom Valley which was a text adventure game. If you got killed, you had to load the game again from the tape player for about 20 mins! If a troll appeared onscreen with a club, I knew I had to get the tape out to reload
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My Dad got an Acorn Electron, I remember playing Chuckie Egg on it, and a game called Twin Kingdom Valley which was a text adventure game. If you got killed, you had to load the game again from the tape player for about 20 mins! If a troll appeared onscreen with a club, I knew I had to get the tape out to reload
1995, but I didn't have a computer until 1997. It was bespoke, made by the guy I worked for and cost me ÂĢ 2500 including a printer.
I remember working with puters pre-Windows. Everything had to be done in DOS. No wonder I went home with a headache every day!
PC, I chose computers as a module at university, but I gave up after a few months, basic and DOS were doing my head in. I regret it now, it's so much easier to deal with problems if you know DOS.
DOS!!
It spent most of its time screaming "SYNTAX ERROR" at me!
It spent most of its time screaming "SYNTAX ERROR" at me!
Errr...about six months before BB4 started.
I remember years ago my aunt bought my cousin who was then 12 (,he'll be 25 this year) a Packard Bell pc it cost ÂĢ1,200 . My niece bought a Packard Bell PC last month in the sale..it cost ÂĢ200.PC's are pretty cheap now due to laptops,tablets, notepads etc. becoming more popular
I used to work in a public library and we lent out games for the Atari/Amiga etc,before that we lent the cassettes for the Sinclair Spectrum,they took bloody ages to load.
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it's so much easier to deal with problems if you know DOS
Well that's true.