I was out with the dogs tonight and pondering a posting somewhere here over the past day or so which had mentioned the old UKBA group. I'm not certain when I stopped using it, but it was certainly the "go to" location during F&M on 2001 for info. as well as a good source of assorted news and gossip prior to and after that time. I know there are quite a few of the old denizens here
As happens as you get older, I then started musing how long I have been actually been playing with computers and then I tried to recall when I first got online.... Bloody scary as I realised how far back I had to go...
First real PC was a Video Genie in 1979/80, a Tandy TRS 80 clone running Basic. I was actually alert enough to do programming then (of a sort!) and wrote my first cattle data handling program and used to do my VAT on it. The accountant then was rather a luddite, and used to have his clerk re-write it all manually!
I first got online around 83/84 I reckon, using Compuserve (CIS) on painfully slow dialup, but it allowed access to the world which was mainly American Usenet sites, but a good resource and got me a great American farming penfriend with whom I am still in touch! Sad thing is that I am blowed if I can recall which machine I was using by then, possibly an Amstrad PCW512 using CP-M.
Now look at us!!
As happens as you get older, I then started musing how long I have been actually been playing with computers and then I tried to recall when I first got online.... Bloody scary as I realised how far back I had to go...
First real PC was a Video Genie in 1979/80, a Tandy TRS 80 clone running Basic. I was actually alert enough to do programming then (of a sort!) and wrote my first cattle data handling program and used to do my VAT on it. The accountant then was rather a luddite, and used to have his clerk re-write it all manually!
I first got online around 83/84 I reckon, using Compuserve (CIS) on painfully slow dialup, but it allowed access to the world which was mainly American Usenet sites, but a good resource and got me a great American farming penfriend with whom I am still in touch! Sad thing is that I am blowed if I can recall which machine I was using by then, possibly an Amstrad PCW512 using CP-M.
Now look at us!!
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