<div>On 12/11/2007, Dianne Reuby <<a href="mailto:pramclub@yahoo.co.uk">pramclub@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> You're making me feel prehistoric! I had a C64 for my first personal machine, but I'd worked on IBM mainframes for about 6 or 7 years before that. Card job control input, data input mainly on card or paper tape - our punch room still had an old hand punch in case all the electric punches failed! Dianne On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:01 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote: > I was born in '92 but I know that they had a ZX81 with the 16K ram > upgrade > (fancy :D)... and a BBC. Then they went straight over to a 286 DOS > machine, > which they then put 3.11wg on. (That 500mb drive still boots, as does > windows and Qbasic and SQL Anywhere) Then they went onto a 486 then a > 486 > Over Drive then a Pentium MMX and so on.... > > Just because I wasn't there, doesn't mean I miss anythin'. We still > have > most of these machines, beauties. > This sounds so interesting to read- the history of these things is so interesting- I find the card/paper punch things fascinating. Has anyone written an easy to read non-techy history of the computer? Caroline -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/"> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> -- --- London School of Puppetry <a href="http://www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com">www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com</a>