discussion What Do You Use to Access The Forum?

[stillp]

Oh Lordy, you're all making me feel very old! I was working with microprocessors in the late 70s! I was developing automotive electronics just as the big manufacturers were starting to think about incorporating a measure of 'computing' in their cars. I remember automatic mixture control for a carburettor, and a digital fuel gauge. All programmed in direct machine code, in hexadecimal. Also, a chap with whom I'd been a student in the mid-sixties had, by a pure fluke, acquired the UK concession for the Commodore PET, which has a good claim to be the first all-in-one PC. I made several customised peripherals for the PET, including a spectrum analyser and an x-y plotter, and later built a load of automated test equipment for a load cell manufacturer, which raised and lowered weights onto the load cells in a variable temperature chamber, all run by the PET.
I still have an Acorn System 1 in the attic, that was used to develop an automated assembly table for making potentiometers..
Pete

 

[Dave Ward]

Final Bump!!!!!!!

 

[wotan]

I was one of the 5 people worldwide who owned an Amiga computer back in the 80's. Complete with cassette player and I think there were about 8 games available for it. Oh how I was jealous of the Sinclair owners.

John

 

[Dave Ward]

My original thought behind this poll was - are the recent wonky photo problems appearing through more people using a phone to access the forum?. Of course I realised later, it would a much more complicated poll, to find any correlation! I was surprised at the tablet access - my only experience was with ancient Jelly Bean android devices, obviously modern tablets ( let alone iPads ) are much more capable.
ps I reckon the wonky photo problem is a function of landscape/portrait ( as has been suggested before ) format on phones/cameras. I only ever use a digital camera in landscape to take my piccies, and I can't recall having problems. There isn't a universally used app to take pictures on phones, so I guess differences in software can have odd effects!
Dave

 

[hirschberg]

Laptop, don't have a smart phone.

 

[Guest]

I was one of the 5 people worldwide who owned an Amiga computer back in the 80's. Complete with cassette player and I think there were about 8 games available for it. Oh how I was jealous of the Sinclair owners.

That sounds to me like you’re confusing the Amiga with something else, really. The Amiga in all its versions had at least one built-in 3.5″ drive, so no need ever for a cassette player.

 

[Tworrs]

My original thought behind this poll was - are the recent wonky photo problems appearing through more people using a phone to access the forum?. Of course I realised later, it would a much more complicated poll, to find any correlation! I was surprised at the tablet access - my only experience was with ancient Jelly Bean android devices, obviously modern tablets ( let alone iPads ) are much more capable.
ps I reckon the wonky photo problem is a function of landscape/portrait ( as has been suggested before ) format on phones/cameras. I only ever use a digital camera in landscape to take my piccies, and I can't recall having problems. There isn't a universally used app to take pictures on phones, so I guess differences in software can have odd effects!
Dave

Dave, for my pics I use my iPhone in landscape orientation, which, once it has uploaded it to the cloud, makes it available on all my devices, then I post my narrative and pics on my iMac.
It seems to work fine for me.
My eyes are too poor to use the phone to access the forum.

 

[Gary MacKenzie]

I was one of the 5 people worldwide who owned an Amiga computer back in the 80's. Complete with cassette player and I think there were about 8 games available for it. Oh how I was jealous of the Sinclair owners.

John

C64 or C16 , I think , unless you go back to the Commodore PET

 

[wotan]

Jakko

You are right about the disk drive I had forgotten over the years like I forget what I had for breakfast. The lack of software support was still a problem. I used it for midi music and video so it worked for a year or two for me.

John

 

[Guest]

I never owned an Amiga back in the day, but a school friend of mine did, and all we ever used it for was playing games