31 Jan
2007
31 Jan
'07
9:19 a.m.
On 31/1/07 01:12, "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
About the same time as me. Before that I had home
micros since about
1980 but usually only one at a time, and they were for day-to-day use,
not as part of a collection, until about 1985, when I had three or four
machines. 1986 (or maybe late '85) was when I acquired a PDP-11/23 that
Heh, it's always the PDP :) Thinking about it I started amassing things in
the late 80s when work was trying to ditch machines and I held onto them - a
VAX here, a micro PDP there, VT180, Rainbow, DECmate etc; there's only a
spell in the 90s when I was forced to get rid of everything before my
partner re-awakened the interest in the late 90s.....
It's all her fault :oD
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