Rob Hanson
Rob Hanson
I’ve been using computers since Sir Clive Sinclair unleashed the beast that was the ZX80 on an unsuspecting public back in 1980, mind you , I had to wait ‘til the next year when the ZX81 was launched, and even then it took some saving (I left school in 1981 - and they had just taken delivery of a Research Machines 380Z (anyone remember those?) ooh the power of that Z80A processor running at a scorching 4 MHz with 4 Kb of RAM - upgradeable to the dizzy heights of 56 Kb ! Your microwave has a faster processor than that!
So, after a couple of bleak years with assorted Z80 based machines, I discovered the 8086 processor line and there was no looking back - 286, 386, 486, Pentium... and the rest, as they say is history!
Having used DOS then Windows in all it’s various forms, I encountered the Mysterious World of the Macintosh in the shape of a Mac Classic sat on the desk of a Graphic Design company Receptionist - using it to type letters to clients ! oh the decadence of it !
Well, that was the start of my ‘Mac Quest’ and it’s taken ooh, 18 or so years to realise the dream, was it worth the wait? You’ll have to read my posts & find out...
