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My first experience of computers was in, I think, the early 1980s on a course run by the long abolished Inner London Education Authority. The OS was CP/M not DOS. The course wasn't much use as the school I worked in did not have a computer.
At home during the 1980s we bought a ZX81, later a ZX Spectrum and then BBC Micro.
The first time I got hands on with a computer for work was in 1989 and it was a IBM machine with 5.25 inch floppy discs. However, it did have Lotus Symphony which was a revelation to me – I could write letters, create spreadsheets.
In the 1990s we bought a number of PCs – a Viglen (before they were taken over), a Dan – when we bought it they tried to sell an upgrade with a higher speed cpu which was running at 66MHz! Others were Dell and Mesh; all recent PCs have been self built.
I've been lucky to have lived through such a period from no home computers, mobile phones, tablets at all, to what we have today; it is just incredible. The amount of easily accessible information on the Web is great. It wasn't that long ago that few people would have believed you would be able to shop for just about anything from anywhere and have worldwide video calls from the comfort of your own home.
Dave
At home during the 1980s we bought a ZX81, later a ZX Spectrum and then BBC Micro.
The first time I got hands on with a computer for work was in 1989 and it was a IBM machine with 5.25 inch floppy discs. However, it did have Lotus Symphony which was a revelation to me – I could write letters, create spreadsheets.
In the 1990s we bought a number of PCs – a Viglen (before they were taken over), a Dan – when we bought it they tried to sell an upgrade with a higher speed cpu which was running at 66MHz! Others were Dell and Mesh; all recent PCs have been self built.
I've been lucky to have lived through such a period from no home computers, mobile phones, tablets at all, to what we have today; it is just incredible. The amount of easily accessible information on the Web is great. It wasn't that long ago that few people would have believed you would be able to shop for just about anything from anywhere and have worldwide video calls from the comfort of your own home.
Dave