Ten Years On
Posted: Thu 25 August, 2005 Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts 3 Comments »It really doesn’t seem like ten years today since Windows 95™® was released, does it?
Computers have changed radically in those ten years, and – in some ways – so has Windows. But still, bloody hell, ten years?
Then again, I realised last night – during a conversation where Herself discovered I can reel off all the letters on a keyboard in order without any prompting, and decided that as such I’m “irredeemably sad” – that I got my first computer 25 years ago. A cute little ZX80. Quarter of a century ago.
I’m just going to go off and have a cry now. Where’s my zimmer frame?
I can recite all the keys too! Then again, my memory is full of junk.
As for a first computer – mine was a ZX Spectrum 48k+… the model after the rubber key, which I think was something like 1986. I remember having hours of fun with the BORDER command on my dad’s black and white telly…
Ah, the Spectrum+2 – built by Amstrad when they acquired the Sinclair computer business, if memory serves…
Absolutely. And I had one of them after the 48k. Design excellence with the +2 – the computer that effectively was fucked if a tape got chewed up – ingenuity.