First personal computer nostalgia

December 19th, 1978: My birthday, and a Commodore PET 2001 is delivered to the school (8K model). Much BASIC programming is done... 1979: Various Apple ][s, TRS-80s and Nascoms appear. I also build an Acorn System One for the school electronics lab. February 1980: My first computer, a Compukit UK101 (clone of the OSI Superboard II). Only 4K, in 2114 chips. 1981-1985: University computers, the Prime P750 (Primos, Software Tools) and PDP-11/44 (Seventh Edition Unix). 1984: Vectrex, bought from Hamleys, London. 1986: First job, programming PC presentation graphics in assembler, BASIC and C. 1987: Atari 520ST, purchased on Tottenhan Court Road in London. Very cheap, non-working unit, which I fixed by reseating the chips. 1989: New job with INMOS and the transputer. 1990: First "PC", a 25MHz 386SX motherboard and no case. 1992: First "classic", an Apple ][. Closely followed by many other classics, once people got to know that I would take any old junk off their hands. Things like PDP-11s, PERQs, Suns, MicroVaxen, BBCs, Dragons, Vectrexes, Whitechapels. 1995: A new PC! Junked 80486 motherboard. IDE disks, really modern stuff! 1998: House full. Change of policy: only collect *small* classic computers... 1999: Another new PC -- Pentium I, 133MHz, ATX. -- John Honniball Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk University of the West of England