How long have you been programming?

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One day, dad brought home one of these i think i was about 8:

16K i seem to remember?!?

to this speccy 48


and this a BBC micro model B (Still used in some archaic industrial robots!! and a more complex verion supplied ceefax/telitext)

only 32k but bbc basic rocked over speccybasic :)

to this olivetti pc1 with TWO diskdrives and 512K;


woohoo 4 colors :) but then i got an EGA 16 color addon :>

to this amstrad 1640:


But mine had a 3.5 inch disk drive, and a 20 MB HARDDISK!!!
640K DOS and a cool gui called GEM

had this amiga at same time


Lovely machine, needed a harddisk for less than 100s of quid though!


Then back to PC and have stayed there since 3/486

Now have 3,
-P4 3gGhz 2Gb Ram Linux/Gnome
-Centrino laptop 1.7Ghz 1Gb Windows
-Duron 800mhz laptop

Its incredible how its changed in such a short space of time.