Hi there, welcome to my computer page:

I have been into computers for some time now, since about 1980 when I had a Tandy TRS80 with green screen monitor and disk drives, I think it had the lower case mod as well, but it's a bit hazy is the old memory now, some more RAM needed huh?

I bought a BBC micro, it was a converted model A, sold as a model B but it did the job. I used it to learn how to program basic and playing games of course. Then I started doing video's and needed a titling machine. I tried with the Beeb but it was not brilliant, I did a mod to convert the mono composite video output to colour, but the output was not up to much.

Then I bought a Commadore Amiga, what an absolutely brilliant machine that was for it's day. It is just a shame that the commercial users of computers thought of it as just a toy. But that's the way of the world, nobody ever got fired for buying "a big blue".

Now that I am studying I needed a PC so I bought one, a Compaq, but it was not expandable enough. I needed other twiddly bits like frame grabbers, a scanner Oodles of disk space so now I build my own. It's a doddle.

My latest started out as a TIME computers machine, it has had 2 motherboards just to get it into some sort of shape. Not Times fault, I hasten to add, the machine they sold me was fine, but I out grew it pretty quickly. I realy ought to get a 800MHz P3 instead of the 450 MHz P2 I have right now.

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