Re: No posts here since 1st Aug

On 06/08/2011 15:29, Will Hand wrote:
Succumbed to a Windows PC in 1997 and joined the world of the WWW and
soon had my own website coded up and running. The masses then joined in
the 21st Century when computers started to become commonplace and very
very easy to use without much knowledge of how they work or how to
program. Things move on and nowadays the power of our machines is simply
awesome with G bytes of RAM and Terrabytes of disk space. Ah the days of
16K and a tape cassette :-)

The first computer I actually owned was an Olivetti with 1MB RAM and a 20MB hard drive. It had a colour flat screen monitor which was really advanced for 1990. It seemed at the time that the monitors were the most expensive part of the PC. I think it was VGA (640x480).

It had Windows 1 on it, but there was nothing that would run on that so you had to use DOS. I would use WordPerfect 5.1, it wasn't wysiwyg but somehow I managed to do school/college work on it, and integrate graphics from Quattro Pro.

A year or so later my brother built me a computer with 8MB RAM and SVGA graphics, 33MHz DX CPU and Windows 3.11 loaded onto it with Microsoft Office 6, that was brilliant and a huge leap forward from the DOS days.

If I remember right, in 1992 the internet was just about going and NASA had a website. You connected through TELNET and but you couldn't view text and graphics together, you had to open the image as a seperate file. Then along came Mosiac and this was the start of a modern browser with NetScape 1 following (you had to pay for it), and then the freebie Internet Explorer 1 from Microsoft.

I got connected to the internet in 1996 with BT via a 56K modem, I think I must have been one of the first BT internet customers as I was able to get 'nickgardner@xxxxxxxxxx' email address. Nowadays you have to put a whole load of numbers everywhere to make it unique. I got Broadband in 2001.

But before all that, I learnt to program in BASIC on an Adler computer whilst at school. It used 5.25 inch floppy disks that kept corrupting data. Then, I learnt how to program in PASCAL on a colour IBM, that was a smart computer and it had the more reliable smaller 'non' floppy disks. I got my A-level in Computer Science, and my program I created that did business accounting helped get me a good grade.

I've messed around with LINUX for a while but Windows is so good these days (especially if you streamline it) that I have all but given up on LINUX.

I've recently built myself a computer with a quad core CPU, 8 GB RAM etc etc. I can edit/create stunning HD video with ease on it. All a long, long way from those earlier days, thankfully.
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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
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