My Devices

My primary school had one of these. I think probably the 80186 version. So technically better than the Amstrad but I remember the Amstrad being way cooler. I remember some game that in my head is called Puff the Magic Dragon, but I think it must actually be Through the Dragon's Eye?

Possibly we did turtle graphics on this at school?

• CPU: Motorola 68EC020 @ 14 MHz
• Memory: 2 MB
• OS: AmigaOS 3.0/3.1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1200

My Mum got it on credit card and was in debt paying it off for a long time.

I remember Deluxe Paint. Cannon Fodder. Sensible Soccer. Chaos Engine. Syndicate. Lemmings.

Oh and Frontier: Elite II!

I don't remember doing any coding on this one?

We got a family PC at some point. Maybe around the time I went to college? I think it was from Evesham but no clue which one.

I got one before going to university in 2001. Possibly from Hi-Grade? I worked for a long time to save up for it I recall. I'm convinced it cost over £1000 at the time, although I have no proof.

My second laptop I think.

• Processor: don't know
• Memory: 512 Mb
• Storage: 30 Gb HDD

I know I had it in Brighton during my Masters degree. So perhaps I got it in 2006 before starting?

Think it was replaced with the Asus that I got around 2012/2013.

I gave it away in 2019 via Freegle.

I got an Asus Vivobook S200 on sale from Comet when it was closing. So I guess around the end of 2012. I think it was £400.

I replaced the power supply for this once, and had to replace the battery once.

My brother had a Master System.

I got a MegaDrive for Christmas one year.

I played Goldeneye a lot.

No a phone but an 'Internet tablet'. It ran Maemo.

My first smartphone. I think maybe 2009/2010.

My second smartphone. Got it second hand from Computer Exchange. Maybe 2013?

I replaced the screen on this after I smashed it while shooing away a bee.

My third smartphone. Second hand from Computer Exchange. I'm going to guess 2016.

I replaced the battery and the back panel on this over the span of its life.

OK phone, but it had a locked and encrypted bootloader on it, which was massively shit, and meant I couldn't install any custom ROMs. I didn't know this was a thing until getting this phone.

It went kaput in October 2019 going into infinite boot loops.

I used this for a bit. Mike gave it to me as the OS for it was being end-of-lifed. Kind of crappy, a very dead app store where even of all of the big apps lay pretty unmaintained. But it did the job as a loaner.