By Steve Ranger
Published: Tuesday 22 April 2008
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Name
Ian Chapman
Location
Aberdeen
Occupation
It manager
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First buiness computer was the Hewlett-Packard 2000, which had 16k of magnetic core memory, and the OS on a tape that reqired the manual input of 30-plus octal commands before it would load.
First business computer was an Acorn Archimedes, I...
Ollie Clark
First buiness computer was the Hewlett-Packard 200...
Ian Chapman
CP/M on a Data General terminal with a 3.5 inch fl...
Anonymous
My earliest experience of computing was with ASR35...
misceng
The BBC Model B was my 4th computer so I didn't an...
Anonymous
The Atari 800XL was popular in the years before th...
BillK
The ZX Spectrum was probably the first computer to...
George
My first proper job was as an operator for Britsh ...
Roy Corneloues
I would like to see a logarithmic graph showing th...
Andrew Robb
Although I wrote many programs on the ZX81, Spectr...
Andrew Ware
First real computing: Leasco Basic via a dial-up t...
Richard
I had an Atari 800 and had the original spreadshee...
Anonymous
I broke three Atari joysticks playing this game - ...
Anonymous
British Tabulating Machine Company HEC 4, 1958,
l...
Richard Sarson
IBM XT in 1986. DOS 2.0; 20MB hard disk; single 5¼...
Ian Sargent
Our first business computers were Epson PC/HD mach...
Pat Mason
First business machine was an Apple IIe. I used Ba...
Anonymous
My first job was for a Commodore dealer who were s...
Iain Hepburn
Oh easy - North Star Horizon, running CP/M on hard...
Darrin Salt
Out of all the old computers mentioned, the only o...
Simon Birch
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