Oldest ubuntu user?

[Sean Miller]

ABD Computer Installations wrote:

>>> I humbly add myself starting in late 84 with a Vic20 (programming in 
>>> basic) then upgraded to the commodore 16 (some called the plus 4), 
>>> and dabbled bits in the amstrad sinclar ,  I then moved on to the 
>>> commodore 64 (which I too did a little assembly and machine code), 
>>> which then went to the commodore 128 (that I didn't get) .
>>
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 in 1982 or thereabouts, followed 
shortly after by a ZX Spectrum 48k... this machine lasted a while; being 
upgraded in various ways -- in its final incarnation, which got donated 
to a charity, it had an external keyboard, a 3.5" disk drive, a 
different version of BASIC that didn't have those horrible "keywords" 
and was enhanced to do such breathtaking things as sprites (lol) and 
probably various other things that I don't remember...

...eventually the Spectrum had its day, and was replaced by a BBC Micro 
(32K)... I had been getting quite heavily involved in the BBS scene; 
edited some pages on the BBC's "Prestel" viewdata service (Clubspot 810) 
and wrote some Viewdata BBS software on the BBC Micro. Also got hold of 
a wonderful little hardware synth for the BBC, which was great fun to 
play with -- along with a pirated ROM (the BBC tended to have most 
software on ROM) which ran in Sideways RAM and made it do loads of 
things it was not meant to.  I reckon the BBC micro days were the ones 
when I was most productive on the programming side as a hobby; soon 
after I started working as a professional programmer and took a bit of a 
break from computers at home. This didn't stop me going through an 
Amiga, and an Acorn Archimedes, tho.... neither really matched the BBC 
Micro for sheer "quality of experience"; dunno if anybody else shares 
these fond memories of that particular micro ?

About 1996 I got myself a PC at home again, and in 1998 got myself 
online. Since then been generally playing with various technologies; 
Linux, and hosting, in particular...

I am very happy with Ubuntu as well -- only real issue at the moment is 
getting the scanner to work (see separate thread) -- anybody who can 
point me in the right direction?

Sean