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Old 12th March 2008 | 16:58
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Groundgripper
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From: In the pension queue, Lancashire, UK
First "PC" was an Amstrad with one 128kb 3" (not 3,5") floppy disk and no hard drive. You loaded the programme with one disk, took it out and then used another for the data you were working on.
Still got one and it still works. In fact I was just editing a program for it! When I got it in the late 1980s I wrote a suite of programs to print out the results of rifle leagues I used to participate in with my rifle club which were sent to me in a particularly incomprehensible form. I still do those leagues (and more) and I've somehow never quite got round to writing equivalent programs on my PC (why bother when the thing works OK anyway)

About four or five years ago the rubber band that drives the floppy gave out and I even managed to find a replacement. Actually the seller sent me two as they were the last ones he had - my reply to his comment that "when they go I don't know where you'll find a replacement" was "if they last as long as the original I'll be well into my nineties and will probably have other things to worry about!"

I'd put a picture up but the batteries on my digital camera are flat (again!!)

Okay, fifteen hours later, batteries recharged - here goes:



Complete with tuner and home-brewed switching. Now, where's that spare digibox!

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