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Allan Wallace - Hobbies - Computers My Computers & related stuff thru history.... Or to put it another way, Historia Anorakia Most recently, I have been dabbling with PHP to improve my handful of websites. Just simple, little tasks, such as randomised content, & a more modular way of managing them. The basic theory behind it, is to more easily facilitate content management. Not quite a CMS (as there is no database...) but heading in that direction. For development of these websites, I have the following installed on my laptop: • Apache • MySQL • PHP • PHPmyAdmin In the beginning, there was: • 1982 - Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K (8 colours! - if you include black and white...) - I encountered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum before I encountered the BBC Micro-computer System Technically, the ZX Spectrum wasn't my first experience of "computers" •Space Invaders •Atari VCS 2600 Then, as the 1970's got further away, and the 1990's got closer: • Amstrad PC1512 - upgraded to 640Kb of RAM! - DOS in BIOS, Monochrome display. • Commodore Business Machines Amiga 500 - 4096 colours, stereo sound, a multi-tasking GUI, and a 32bit Motorola 68000 CPU on a 16bit bus. My first Internet computer! • Commodore Amiga 1200 - 16,777,216 colours, stereo sound, a multi-tasking GUI, and a 32bit Motorola 68020 CPU on a 32bit bus - Upgrading to 10MB of RAM, the 8MB stick cost £206... - i've had many Amigas. Typically Upraded with extra RAM, faster CPUs, Hard Disks, DVD Drives, and modems. One A1200 had Ethernet on PCMCIA. Currently, i'm watching the development of AROS - The AROS Research Operating System very closely. - It offers an Amiga Workbench-like operating system on a wide variety of hardware, such as cheap Atom-powered PCs |
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