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Sinclair ZX81 then a Commodore C64 finally a Commodore Amiga 500Plus (my first floppy drive 3 1/2 inch and hard disc drive( sold seperately and costing a fortune)), happy days!
 
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It did have a very good OS (Amiga Workbench) , pity it lost out to Microsoft in the end.
It was a well know secret at the time that at some exhibition they had a giant wall of TV screens advertising the latest version of Microsoft Windows.
Unknown to everyone they were using an Amiga to drive it all as the Ms Windows just couldn't cope!
 
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Not counting the Commodore PET (not mine) that was the first "home" computer I ever got to use (and not listing various mainframes and minis, accessed with MOP and other remote terminals, I used at work)...:

TRS-80 (Model II) -> BBC Micro (Model B) -> Archimedes -> RiscPC -> various Windows laptops and PCs.​
 
A few years ago [maybe 10?] I was at a recording of Have I Got News For You and was amazed to see behind the staging, a Commodore 64 running the titles. I went to have a look - as I couldn't believe it and a very serious Security Guard leapt to stop me getting close like he was in the Secret Service taking a bullet for POTUS... Okay maybe I shouldn't have been behind the staging...
 
BigBadBob141 said:
It did have a very good OS (Amiga Workbench) , pity it lost out to Microsoft in the end.
It was a well know secret at the time that at some exhibition they had a giant wall of TV screens advertising the latest version of Microsoft Windows.
Unknown to everyone they were using an Amiga to drive it all as the Ms Windows just couldn't cope!
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The Amiga was also used in the early days of Babylon 5
 
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He's been buying his petrol at Esso stations.

I remember when Goldfinger came out, Esso gave you bullethole stickers with every refill.
We had my dad refill at every esso station along the A30 on the way to our holiday in Cornwall, sometimes for hardly a gallon of petrol so that we could cover our car in bulletholes.
 
My 21inch CRT monitor from 1999 is still going strong. It was designed for CAD with a 1600 x whatever you want resolution and degausses automatically when switched on. It weighs 36 kg.

And, yes, it’s a cat bed of great renown.
 
At work, we are only [and just] getting rid of 1990s CRTs because up to lately no digital screen came close to image quality. You can do really strange things by rewiring the HT side to flip and reverse images and overdrive them as nothing digital could handle.
Digital will or will not, Analogue will give you something. It tries harder...
And there are whole fields of research on the noise of CRTs and human vision...
 
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