"KolibriOS?" ... ...

Oh, what have you done? Put another operating-system in the hands of a confessed operating-system junkie like me? ... and let the record show, you started this!

I can't resist asking if you know this one?
http://www.helenos.org/

click me...

And now for a view from my laptop's face-camera ...

Aww, heck ... the real reason why I've been doing this crazy line of work, for never-mind how many years now, is that I still enjoy it. The machines sure have changed, but I still get a kick out of making a machine "do stuff."

lets see in the early `80's i guess it can be called a "computer"

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HP 41c
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First one in my house was a 400mb hard drive Windows 95 machine in 1996. I messed with that system like crazy. Made my favourite golf game a music file. And I started up the machine with the music of Aerosmith "A Hole in my Soul" My stepdad was pissed. When I said we need to upgrade the hard drive since I thought it was small, he got a 64mb hard drive home. I found out then that music took up way too much space already.

and still have I calculator programmer's HP-16C still use everyday it.

My TI-57 and TI-59 with its magnetic cards are packed away somewhere. I don't miss those.

Some people RPN like, others not.

what can i say
2 <enter> 2 X
drove the other kids in High-school(9-12) bonkers

though there was a IBM 5150 in the house

Mine was a Sinclair ZX81 which I bought as a kit and built in an evening. I then graduated to an Oric 1 'cos I wanted somethng with a better keyboard, shame there was very little software for it. Then got a BBC B and joined my Company's computer club. We used to copy sideways ROMS and use logic analysers to work out how InterWord and InterSheet were made (one 32K ROM made to look like one 16K and two 8K ones, controlled by a ULA or a PIC if I remember) We were bad boys in these days. Moved on to Macs for a couple of boxes before hitting Linux with a Compaq WS5000 dual Pentium Pro workststion... Various bits of kit now.

Ah, these were tha days. I've just recently upgraded to a Raspberry Pi, so full circle!

Play Bonny!

Me too... although it is the 11C as an app on my iPhone. I don't feel any difference between the original one and this one except for the key push. I thought the 16C was available as well. In real life I own both 11C and 16C, both dead batteries.

jlinkels

I can't remember if it was branded. It was an XP running at 2MHz(with a Turbo boost to 4 !) I had no idea how to run it except to switch on. The guy who gave it to me said type 'dir'. The rest is history. The most interesting one I had was a Zenith with two single sided 360 floppies with win 1.12 from memory. A strange machine that I kept for amusement. By this time I had a 386sx which was ok. Interesting how paint and notepad has/d hardly changed from win 1.x.. At uni (late 70's) I'd been using a dec10 and the local 'super computer' with punchcards. Tedious but fun.

My first computer was a C 64 that my mom and dad bought from Best...or was it JC Penneys...doesn't matter. It was 1982 and I was four years old. I remember that we used to type programs out of the back of Compute's Gazette magazine and play them for hours. Leaving the computer on as we couldn't afford the tape drive to save it.

We picked up various other Commodore computers; Vic 20, 128, that small fridge commodore considered a laptop. Once we got the Amiga 1000, it was all over. I learned ARexx and the fact that the CLI was a cousin to UNIX and years later here I am on a Minty machine.

Losing my A3000 and my A600 within a week of one another was one of the saddest times I can remember...

The first computer I ever used was at early 90's, a friend's PC. I suspect it was a 386 system, it had a 5.25" FDD and (I assume) no hard disk. We used to play some games on that.

More than a decade later I bought my first PC. AMD Athlon 3500+ 1GiB RAM which is still my main computer with some minor upgrades.

The oldest computer I own is a 486DX, which I try to get up and running.

Sinclair ZX80, 1983 (I guess...)

I always wanted a Sun workstation with those fast RISC chips but they were pricey than Macs.

Anyway, my very first computer was a 286 with two 5 1/4 floppy drives and no hard drive. One drive had the dos floppy and the other was for loading programs. It was tedious at times swapping floppies because there was no hard drive in the system to keep installed programs.


My second computer and on wards were all PC based types running the windows OS. My last horah with windows was vista. I started using linux more and more and now it's all I use.