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hirez1971 - Holt Farm, The Cotswolds. Cooker - mongo cream AGA with some dodgy-looking liquid fuel retrofit. Computers - none. Pa may have had a mechanical adding machine. Charlton Abbotts manor had yet to catch fire. Telly - B&W thing that I am not allowed to touch. Nor are we allowed to hold with that terrible Commercial Television. Still, outside there is a creosote pit, calcium carbide, woodsheds, barns and rusty farm implements to play with. Not hating school.
1981 - Cotehay Farm, The Cotswolds. Cooker - blue Rayburn that made Jolly Exciting Noises when the hot water pipes got properly furred up. Computers - one, I think. Handbuilt by JHR and immortalised on Wikipeejah. Telly - the colour one that turned up for the Jubilee. Outside there are more barns, grain pits, rusty things of indeterminate utility and crap old motorcycles to play with. Hating school.
1991 - Golder's Green. (First London Adventure) Cooker - mostly used as a place to store binbags of McDonalds wrappers. Computers - many. My Amiga2k, Pascal's RISC box & Atari PC, DHM's NeXT, TSBs blagged or borrowed Solbourne & Xenix box, sundry Dell PCs as dev boxes, some portables. Telly - none. Outside there's a tube station one way and the Heath Extension the other. Discovering that I can write rather good code.
2001 - 465 Archway Road. (Second London Adventure) Cooker - redundant spare that I'd bought seven years previously and hauled up to London when the original exploded in unfortunate circumstances. Telly - the portable that I'd liberated from then-work in the late 80s. Computers - A handbuilt PC, a 68k Mac of uncertain provenance and a BSD box under the desk that connected to this shiny new invention called ADSL. Outside is the A1, too many people and tube-rats. Adminning unix kit for a doomed dotcom.
2011 - Bristol. Cooker - mostly hanging together. Telly - flat screen thing. Computers - two PCs, a Mac, a NeXT and a BSD box. And another BSD box. Outside there is too much concrete and too many people. Still, the cyclepath is rather good. Remembering how to write rather good code, adminning unix kit and not writing enough fiction.
2112 - A shit concept album.
1981 - Cotehay Farm, The Cotswolds. Cooker - blue Rayburn that made Jolly Exciting Noises when the hot water pipes got properly furred up. Computers - one, I think. Handbuilt by JHR and immortalised on Wikipeejah. Telly - the colour one that turned up for the Jubilee. Outside there are more barns, grain pits, rusty things of indeterminate utility and crap old motorcycles to play with. Hating school.
1991 - Golder's Green. (First London Adventure) Cooker - mostly used as a place to store binbags of McDonalds wrappers. Computers - many. My Amiga2k, Pascal's RISC box & Atari PC, DHM's NeXT, TSBs blagged or borrowed Solbourne & Xenix box, sundry Dell PCs as dev boxes, some portables. Telly - none. Outside there's a tube station one way and the Heath Extension the other. Discovering that I can write rather good code.
2001 - 465 Archway Road. (Second London Adventure) Cooker - redundant spare that I'd bought seven years previously and hauled up to London when the original exploded in unfortunate circumstances. Telly - the portable that I'd liberated from then-work in the late 80s. Computers - A handbuilt PC, a 68k Mac of uncertain provenance and a BSD box under the desk that connected to this shiny new invention called ADSL. Outside is the A1, too many people and tube-rats. Adminning unix kit for a doomed dotcom.
2011 - Bristol. Cooker - mostly hanging together. Telly - flat screen thing. Computers - two PCs, a Mac, a NeXT and a BSD box. And another BSD box. Outside there is too much concrete and too many people. Still, the cyclepath is rather good. Remembering how to write rather good code, adminning unix kit and not writing enough fiction.
2112 - A shit concept album.
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Date: 2011-03-08 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-09 12:43 am (UTC)We had one for as long as I can remember there ever being a TV in the house!
I do recall my best mate having a black and white one when I was a kid though.
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:30 am (UTC)Our first colour one as a kid was a Phillips G8 chassis. Like most people's, this was a cheapie bought S/H ex-rental (You crazy Eengleesh, you buy your houses, but you rent your TVs). Like most geeks, I learned to fix TVs by fiddling with a G8. As (which I admit, did take Google) it was a G22K550, which I think means 1974, then it was probably '76-'77 when we got it.
Obviously JH-R's new TV will be a G8, once he sees this (http://www.rockcity.adsl24.co.uk/philips/g8_service_data.html) little Dexion beauty. Take that Gilliam!
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:31 am (UTC)You're just better at this than the rest of us.
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Date: 2011-03-09 08:36 am (UTC)I've also got a horrible feeling that the nice people from Serviscope tried to teach me how to fix a G-series chassis.
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Date: 2011-03-09 09:36 am (UTC)