Heheh, I was 7 when my dad got a computer too! It wasn't for me, though (although I ended up using it rather a lot more than anyone else after a while), it was an 8-bit Atari, and the year was 1981.
Around 1990 or so I actually sold a new Amiga to a school friend. I (well, my dad) had somehow ended up with a trader account with Silica Shop, the friend wanted an Amiga, so I ordered one and (with parents' driving help) dropped it off at his house one day. He'd previously paid in instalments, which got us a lot of "wheeler-dealer" type comments as we counted £100+ in cash in the 6th-form common room. :)
I have never actually used an Amiga; my only experience, until university, was of 8- and 16-bit Ataris, and of BBC and Archimedes machines at school. A friend-of-a-friend had a Spectrum and I think I visited once and we all played games on it for an afternoon, but I never really got to use Spectrums (Spectra?) as such.
I was basically a strict Atari-only-ite until about 1996 when I bought my first PC during the first year of my PhD course. I played with Windows for a few days, then wiped it and put Slackware on it... which eventually morphed into Debian, which I still use today. For someone who's as much of a computerholic as I am, I've used a surprisingly limited range of models and OSes.
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Date: 2011-09-03 10:11 pm (UTC)Around 1990 or so I actually sold a new Amiga to a school friend. I (well, my dad) had somehow ended up with a trader account with Silica Shop, the friend wanted an Amiga, so I ordered one and (with parents' driving help) dropped it off at his house one day. He'd previously paid in instalments, which got us a lot of "wheeler-dealer" type comments as we counted £100+ in cash in the 6th-form common room. :)
I have never actually used an Amiga; my only experience, until university, was of 8- and 16-bit Ataris, and of BBC and Archimedes machines at school. A friend-of-a-friend had a Spectrum and I think I visited once and we all played games on it for an afternoon, but I never really got to use Spectrums (Spectra?) as such.
I was basically a strict Atari-only-ite until about 1996 when I bought my first PC during the first year of my PhD course. I played with Windows for a few days, then wiped it and put Slackware on it... which eventually morphed into Debian, which I still use today. For someone who's as much of a computerholic as I am, I've used a surprisingly limited range of models and OSes.