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The Retirement Thread

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Ness
Ness
Apr 2023
9:08am, 20 Apr 2023
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Didn't get my first home computer until the year after dad died! :(
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Apr 2023
9:13am, 20 Apr 2023
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got mine when I started my HNC in 1999
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
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My first owned home PC was also my first job. This was not a coincidence. After graduating in electronic engineering, I was into computers, and while I wanted money, I also wanted to stay local to Edinburgh as I had just moved in with my girlfriend (future wife). So I binned the London based graduate job applications and looked locally. An entrepreneur had just set up a PC "clone" building business in an industrial estate 10 miles away! So I got a job there. I got a PC with a small discount (but not much) and some upgrades. 1991. It was £2,000 and my salary was £12,000 gross, I think, so maybe £700 net a month. So 3 months' salary?! :-O

I wrote a blog about it once. :-) G
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
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£1,290 I just re-read the blog! fetcheveryone.com/blog-share.php?id=386175 :-) G
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Apr 2023
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I got one in 1999 because the ed psych who told us that Kevin definitely didn't have Asperger syndrome also expressed horror that she didn't have access to a computer at home. We ended up having to manage her chat room addiction.
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Apr 2023
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yeah my PC was a "tiny" and about £1500+
I had a massive 6Gb HDD that was glued to the inside of the tower case
I remember upgrading to a HUMUNGOUS 20Gb HDD and thinking I would never fill it
Garfield
Garfield
Apr 2023
9:37am, 20 Apr 2023
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EP, my first PC was a Tiny but I can't remember how much I paid for it. I had issues when they claimed it had an Intel chip in it and my neighbour when upgrading my chip found it was AMD...hubby had fun with them! :P
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Apr 2023
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ohhhh norty!
My first IT job was working for an ISP (small independent) and the guys helped me upgrade the HDD and to windows 98SE as I was a total novice
They were applauded when they opened the case to find the HDD glued to the side and all the components glued to things
Hanneke
Hanneke
Apr 2023
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I worked at Utrecht museum and got my wages weekly in a brown envelope.

My first PC was as a student. My mother brought it back from the university she worked at. The first portable computer! A Compaq. No internet...

My own desktop computer came a year or two later. It was equipped with an external modem. You would call the recipient, then you'd both turn your modems on to communicate directly. There was a lot of magic and fingers crossed involved in the sending of texts.
Hanneke
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