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December 23, 2003

First Computers

Patrick, have you been contacted by this man?

Talking about first computers: I learned some BASIC on the Imperial College mainframe (some IBM thing, I think); many many hours of teletype access to the ICL and Prime machines at Guildford (I was SCH008); and, around the same time, a RML 380Z, ZX-80, and an ageing Mael 4000 (an interesting machine, with two 8" floppy disks, tape drive, golfball printer, assembler control panel, and 4K core memory).