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I was looking back on my computing history and thought it would be interesting to where the rest of you guys came from.
I started on an The Amstrad PCW 9512.
was a dedicated word processing computer. It was the successor to the Amstrad PCW 8512 and had the same basic characteristics. However, it corrected two of the main criticisms of the 8512: the low quality of the printer and the machine's non-business-like styling.
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It had a paper-white monochrome screen (black on white) unlike the 8512, which had a green monochrome screen (green on black). It was equiped with a 3" 720k floppy disk drive (a second one could be added) and used a daisywheel printer instead of the dot matrix printer of the PCW 8256/8512.
I had the daisy wheel printer too, and it was the first as is said above to have a black and white screen!
It had
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Locoscript V2 word processor including LocoSpell and LocoMail, and Mallard Basic, both made by Locomotive software. DR Logo was also supplied as standard.
The first computer I actually bought was an at the time, top of the range Advent 3215 Pentium 4 2.66Ghz machine with an at the time, amazing amount of RAM, 512MB! It had Windows 2000/XP installed on it.
http://www.old-computers.com/ is great for finding your old computer
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