1967-70 It all starts with Logarithms as the only
1970-76 I moved over to the slide rule as a
1976-1988 The Commodore 9R25 is used as my
1988-2006 The Casio fx-82C scientific calculator
1982 and The Dark Tower appears as the very first
1983 The ZX81 arrives and soon takes up most
ZX81 Sinclair running on a Zilog Z80A 1KB RAM 8 KB ROM.
I don't have the original 16K Spectrum as it was
1983 - By the end of 1983 I was heavy into the
Runs on a Zilog Z80 A with 48K RAM.
1987 Make way for the Spectrum+2 the first
Runs on a Zilog Z80 A with 128K RAM.
1988 Impressed by Amstrad I purchased a PCW9512.
Runs on a Zilog Z80 A 4 MHz with 512K RAM.
1989 I flirted with the Amstrad 1512 HD20 and
Runs on an Intel 8086 at 8MHz and 512KB RAM.
1993 The Amiga 1200 arrived and changed my life
Runs on a Motorola MC68EC020 at 14.18 MHz with
1996 and in comes the Windows 95 Colossus that never
She was a Pentium 120 with a 1GB hard drive no less.
The new millennium and on the dong of 2000 I was
Evesham Micro Platinum TNT2 Live Pentium III
2002 I purchased an Evesham mini tower system
Intel Celeron 1.1 GHz, 60GB HD, 256 Mb SDRAM.
2008 I acquired a Pentium 4 Evesham tower
2011 to the present I use this HP Pavilion
This summer I replaced the NVIDIA graphics card
In 2017 I purchased a DeLL Inspiron Desktop
I have never used the machine as I cannot abide Win10.
ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2023
Entry 4th May 2023: Post 1: My computer bloodline - Logs to blogs.
My computer bloodline - Logs to blogs.
Have been thinking of getting a new computer. This was prompted
by my having to fully back up my drive off the HP Win7 machine
that has gotten a tiny bit full. Only took 12 years so I am not
complaining. I do have a DeLL Win10 machine purchased in 2017
that I never used, but even that is six years old now and I so
need a modern gaming rig.
Looking at the Commodore 9R25 calculator yesterday from 1996 it
made me reflect on just how I got to where I am today computer-wise.
I do have them all still working for the most part, so I decided
to collate a bloodline of the main players in my computer life.
Obviously I do have hundreds of computers in the collection but
choose here only to show the ones I actually used in the day in
the time sequence they were acquired. I also leave out gaming
consoles and handhelds.
Here we go with my family history tree of computers that conveniently
start with logs.
My computer bloodline - Logs to blogs.
means available short of long hand to solve
all my mathematical challenges.
means to aiding my mathematical calculations.
main calculator at work and at home.
replaces the trusty Commodore for my work calcs.
computer gaming machine. Ahead of its time.
of my free time. The computer was kitted out
with a Panda RAM pack and modified keyboard.
traded in at John Menzies for a 48K machine.
Sinclair Spectrum and starting to amass various
add-ons and gadgets.
encounter with the mighty Alan Sugar.
This introduced me to CP/M and Mallard BASIC.
moved away from 3 inch compact to 5.25" floppy.
completely. The computer was the subject of so
many upgrades and expansions. Too many to list.
2MB Chip RAM. Mine has a Blizzard 1230IV Turbo
with 32MB RAM.
quite nudged out the Amiga. In the years I had the
machine running I expanded with SCSI, scanner, ZIP
drive, SWAP Bay and CD writer.
taking possession of my brand new Windows 98
machine. She lasted some eight years before she
was replaced with the dreaded XP machine.
Intel Pentium II 550 CPU 120MB SDRAM, 27GB HD
DVD and ZIP drive, Ethernet and SoundBlaster with
surround sound speakers.
to work in tandem with the Win98 simply to
store and burn CDs using NERO. She never went
online in all her life.
running at 2.80 GHz and 3GB RAM. She had
200GB and 150GB hard drives, Ethernet, DVD
writer and a NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 graphics card.
She was plugged into a Syncmaster T220HD monitor.
Windows 7 machine. She is a HPE-495uk with
an Intel Core i7CPU 8GB memory and 64-bit OS.
The CPU runs at 870at2.93GHz 2.93 GHz. 1 TB HD
and all the modern bells and whistles.
for the second time. Mainly due to gaming hammering.
i7-7700 up to 3.60 GHz 16GB DDR4 at 2400MHz with
a 128GB SSD+1TB GB 7.2K HDD. NVIDIA GEForce GTX 750Ti
Windows 10 and that is where this ends.
I would rather go all the way back to pencil and paper
than use this dreadful operating system. It is truly crap.
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