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On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:11:05 +0000 (GMT) CHRISTOPHER BERRY <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello CHRISTOPHER, >My first computer (in 1983) was the Texas Instruments 91/4a. 99/4a, in point of fact. >Did anyone else have one? No... >Has anyone else heard of it? Yes (obviously) :-) >And how about working with 'sprites'? I started out with a ZX81, with the 16k RAM pack. The infamous wobble was hell, so, I avoided it by soldering the RAM pack in place on the end of an extender card which was designed to take other hardware add-ons. I don't recall whether anything used it. I then moved onto Atari 8-bits. First, the 800, then the 130XE. When the 16 bit machines became more affordable, I moved on to a Commodore Amiga 500+, then an A1200. The 1200 got a tower case, and various hardware upgrades (68060/PPC processor board, VGA GFX, PC Keyboard adaptor). Cost me a fortune, of course. When the Amiga was on its last legs, I finally moved on to Linux in Dec 2000. Initially Mandrake, then when that became Mandriva and wouldn't install correctly on my machine for some reason, I moved on to Debian. Since that time, I've only had two machines. The first was a 686 AMD machine, the current one a dual core AMD_64 one. I wonder, in that same period of time, how many hardware upgrades the average Windows user would have had to make? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Bet you thought you had it all worked out Problem - Sex Pistols
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