> Ian Pascoe wrote: > > Well I cut my teeth on a Model B and the first major enhancement I did to it > > was .... to add a 5.25" floppy drive. > Mmm, not sure I should confess to this in a public forum but: > I also started on a Beeb, had to install the floppy-disc interface one > chip at a time and installed a word-processor on a ROM (there's flash!). > No hard drive then! > And all that 32K of RAM!!! such luxury. > Eddie >
Meh lightweights.... My first forage into computing in the 1800's was much more hardcore. You don't know you're born! I would often be called to the analytical machine late at night, because a tiny misalignment of a brass cog had caused it to render an ascii image of her majesty incorrectly (thus greatly angering subscribers of the then pigeon powered t'internet.....). Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
