ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2019 Entry 17th June 2019: You can never go back You can never go back Pretty obvious thing to say but you can never go back. In truth if you are truly addicted to your computing, why would you ever want to work with inferior and out dated machinery. I certainly have always looked forward to the next best thing when it comes to my computer habit. However, I do tend to stay loyal to a particular platform or OS for as long as I can. Primarily cus I build so much around a particular bit of kit or OS that I am less likely to move forward until I really need to. So I tend to drain every last drop from what I have. This doesn't mean to say that I don't dip into the retro pond and have a play. I love refreshing my memories of the older systems and I truly enjoy keeping the stuff alive and looking after it. But and this is a big BUT, I am not trying to drag any old bit of kit, kicking and screaming into the new world that we live in today. What was then has it's place on a historical timeline and therefore is only relevant to a given period. When I use anything old I expect it to look and perform as it's age dictates. So what is the point of this thread. Nothing really, just to say that next year I will be dragged, kickin 'n' screaming into the mobile phone era and take the plunge into Windows 10. I will hate it, just like I hated Windows 95, 98, XP and Windows 7, But It's all I got as the only real option for me given my loathing of Apple and inability to master Linux. Windows may not be wholly Plug and Play but it tends to work with most things I have. It really is a case of better the devil you know. So here is a quick journey back down the rabbit hole that was my computer life to that first flashing cursor in 1982 and even beyond a little to show what I did before the computer entered my world. In truth I can't imagine a world without the computer and I have to have my Tera and YouTube or I'd go bonkers. Cue music ....K Y L I E Interesting fact that before I had the computer I would spend my weekends plugged into a couple of video recorders mixing my own music programmes and creating musical tapes with music and comedy plus even my home made music videos and animations. Kylie and particularly this video featured quite a bit. Good old Kylie. That's 'programme' and not program. Bit like Max Headroom. Some of these pictures are quite old and so enlarging kinda made them go all blurred. Or was it the rose tinted spectacles. And yes .. I still own them all and they all work See if you can spot the Amiga 4000T lurking in one picture. You can never go back Windows 10 on the DeLL. 2020. My current world with Windows 7. 2011. XP and the lovely Candice Swanepoel. 2008. Warcraft from 2008 to the present day. PlatStations 1, 2 and 3. 1997-2007 Windows 98. 2000. Ejay on the Win 98 computer. The first real tin box. Win 95. 1996. The Amiga 1200. 1993. My Amiga world.. and still is. Video editing on the SONY. Amstrad 1512. 1991. Amstrad GEM desktop. Amstrad PCW9512. 1987. Locoscript, CP/M and Mallard BASIC on the Amstrad. My first sprinkling of Sugar. 1986. Spectrum 48K. 1984. Spectrum 16K. 1983. ZX81 enters my world as the first. 1982. I owned my first flashing cursor. 1982. Dark Tower. Computerised DnD. 1981. The calculator. Life before the computer. Recording my world. 1977. Photographing my world. 1976. My first recording device. 1969. And my most prolific recording tool.. The pencil. So what was I doing from 1969 to 1976. Well for the first part finishing school and getting a job and then drinking, clubbing and going out with girls. I also spent a lot of time fixing my cars. As you do. So whot's your computer timeline

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