How old are you?

[InTheSand]

33...

Would be interesting to note the average age once there are a few more replies!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

@AMIGAZ - passed away? I thought he was living somewhere in tax exile?!

As for the correlation between the number of computers and age, I'm not sure about that! I have:

1 x Sinclair ZX80
2 x Sinclair ZX81 (one non-working)
4 x Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K (one non-working, plus ZX Interface One, Two, Microdrives, etc)
2 x Sinclair ZX Spectrum + 128K (one non-working)
1 x Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A
1 x Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3
2 x Sinclair QL (one non-working, other with disk interface)
1 x Atari 520STFM (1Mb upgrade and DS drive)
1 x Atari 520STE (1Mb upgrade)
2 x Acorn BBC Master 128 (with disk drives)
2 x Acorn Archimedes A30x0 (both with hard drives and RAM upgrades)
2 x Commodore 64 (one with a 1541)
1 x Commodore 64DTV joystick
1 x ageing Dell laptop
4 x home-built PCs with varying specs
1 x Apple MacII LC
3 x Philips CD-i players (one developer machine)
1 x Gamecube
1 x Vtech kiddies computer (68000-based, a future project!)
1 x Amiga 1000 (with Insider 1Mb board)
1 x Amiga 500 (with GVP HD-8 hard drive / RAM upgrade)
1 x Amiga 600 (with RAM upgrade and 200Mb hard drive, plus a spare non-working A600 mobo)
1 x Amiga 1200 (68060 / 32Mb / 2Gb hard drive / external HD floppy / Subway USB)
1 x Amiga 3000 (68060 / 128Mb / 10Gb hard drive / Catweasel / Cybervision 64 / Ethernet)


And...


1 x very understanding girlfriend!  :-)


The PCs, the A3000 and the A1200 are the only machines set up and ready to go, the rest are in storage.

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Agafaster wrote:
...used to have an Alphacom 32 bogroll dispenser-I mean printer :-D

Heh! I always used to want one of those - printing on real white-ish paper, rather than Sinclair's silver astro-bog-roll dispenser!

And some of the later ones had sound (well, beeper) amplifiers built in to assist the Spectrum's rather feeble buzzer!

and I wouldnt say no to an original Sinclair QL either !
(I got the green eyed monster over me shoulder reading of ZX interface 1's and microdrives - I hankered for those in my teens !)

Well, to make you more green-eyed (sorry!), I bought one QL, fully boxed and in great condition, with lots of Microdrive cartridges, for the princely sum of £5 at a radio/electronics fair about 10 years ago in the UK... Bargain!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Oli_hd wrote:
...I started off on the spectrum, stayed with that till 93...

Wow! So there were still people using Speccies that late! And by that time, programmers had really got to grip with the Amiga's capabilities so it must have been a huge step up.

I took the Spectrum --> ST --> Amiga route, so there was less of a shock!

Oh, and I'm 34...

 - Ali