General Chat

Bob, Youv've just reminded me! My actual first one was a Comodore 64? In the early 80's, put all my recipies on it, you didn't have monitors then it was the TV screen, you should have seen the mess in my lounge when I was baking, trailing back and forth from the kitchen to read the TV!! lol Kim

Pat I really hope you dont mean Dell Trotter!!! LOL

My daughter gave me an old one of hers, on which to do my family tree. It was an NEC laptop with a hard-disc capacity of 7.5 megabytes, not powerful enough to go online, but it whetted my appetite.So I bought me a Dell desk-top for my 75th birthday in 1998. Now on my second Dell. Len

We got an offer of someone elses as well Bryan lol. Paid £100 quid not bad although there was no sound. At the time we didn't have broadband and because it was a very slow computer it was costing a fortune so we bought a new one really fast with sound and then we got broadband lol. This is my third computer and my second dell. :-) Pat x

well,i'me self taught,and for the first few months,i found it really difficult,but i would write questions down,and the next day ask a lady working in a cafe,and she was a great help. a friend of mine went online just before xmas,and i was so chuffed,cos i went to his house and helped him...the things i've done for a bowl of home made chicken soup :o) bryan.

Hi Bryan Got mine about 10 yrs back when I first started doing the family tree, no internet connection then. When got connected didn't know about virus protection then so trashed it in about 2 yrs! lol Rebuilt it, as learnt a lot by then! but fan(s) went, yep learnt another thing, my power supply had 2 not 1! trashed it! Can't live without it now, all hubby and son say is they know what the back of my head looks like!!! Kim PS bought son one for Christmas as backup!!! lol

first computer was a sinclair 48k.spectrum. with a ''dead flesh'' keyboard second was a bbc model b vintage LOL these days a shortcut takes up nearly as much room than the bbc had memory..........ooops!16 k was ok for silly games though......and word processing.. bob

there was one in house for years...wasn't even interested in it...couldn't switch it on....left it to everyone else to use. Then along came my tree work....hubby had to buy me my own as he couldn't get me off his...weeehey..its mine...and it is my bestest thing

Bryan, Had one for about 10 yrs too, I am sure we bought ours so that I could keep in contact with hubby when he was away at sea, though I have to admit its only been the last 4yrs I have become addicted to being on it!! Debs x

My son and his g/friend introduced it to me. We have been in love ever since lol I ask the granchildren on 'How do I?' Nannys little helpers lol Gerri the puter addict x

Bought mine for my husband on his birthday so he'd have a hobbie ..............to bad he can't get near it.

Do you know - I honestly can't remember lol Had for about 10 years now and wouldn't be without it - sad moo aint I ??? lol

up until a few years back,i thought it was similar to having teletext,and had no interst whatsoever....then a pal,who writes music,said he needed to change his,and would i like his old one for £100,so i thought i would give it a go...glad i did...what about you......bryan.