Thought it was time to let you all know little more about me... so here goes.......
This is Les, (real name Leslie) Just turned 54 this year, I live in Leicester, in the UK, about 100mile north of London, lived here all my life, I live with My wife Lisa and son Kristian, and 2 daughters who have now left home, Plus Rocky our Yorkshire terrier.
I have always been into computers, at school we had a old IBM which was given to us, but we never did get it going, it filled one class room
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I dabbled a bit with Fortran, but only ever got compute the multiples of 3! I wanted to stay on at school, but my parents were poor so I had to leave school at 14, and went in the the same job has my dad, which was a furniture remover, I stayed at that until 15 years ago, But I did get to see all of the UK from top to bottom, very interesting job, got to meet a lot of people too, but I had to give up work due to ill health.
I am self taught in HTML(no PHP :undecided2: ) and built and maintain a number of sites for people, brings in a little extra
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I also do a little commission work on a big forum with over 2000 members which gets me extra too, (the admins cant install a small mod without breaking it!)
I got into graphics a few years ago, and have even done a few commissions, (dont know how I got paid for them!!)
I got my first computer at 24, which was a Commodore Vic 20
(CPU:MOS 6502, 1MHz
RAM:5K (3.5K for the user)
Display:22 X 23 text 176 X 184, 16 colors max
Ports:composite video joystick, cartridge, user port serial peripheral port)
I then moved on to a Commodore 64
(CPU:MOS 6510, 1MHz
Sound:SID 6581, 3 channels of sound
RAM:64K
Display:25 X 40 text 320 X 200, 16 colors max
Ports:TV, RGB & composite video 2 joysticks, cartridge port serial peripheral port)
My next one was a Commodore 128
CPU 8502 + Zilog Z80
SPEED 1/2 mHz (for the 8510), 1.022 MHz (for C64 mode), ~2.5 MHz (Z80)
CO-PROCESSOR SID (sound), VDC & VIC-II (video)
RAM 128 KBVRAM 16 KBROM 48 KB
TEXT MODES 40 or 80 chars. x 25 lines
GRAPHIC MODES several, most used : 160x200 / 320 x 200 / 640 x 200
COLORS 16SOUND 3 voices / 6 octaves
I/O PORTS RGB, Video Composite, Joystick (2), Cardridge, Tape, User Port (RS232 compatible), TV, serial
Then the Commodore's Amiga 500
Built-in keyboard, 95 keys
CPU Motorola MC68000
SPEED 7.09379 MHz (PAL)
7.15909 MHz (NTSC)
CO-PROCESSOR OCS based chipset: 8370/8372 Fat Agnus (memory controller and blitter), 8362R5/8362R6/8362R8 Denise (video control chip), 8364 Paula (sound & I/O), 5719R2 Gary (I/O)
RAM 512 KB Chip RAM (expandable to 9MB : 512 KB Chip RAM + 512 KB Slow RAM + 8 MB Fast RAM)
ROM Kickstart 1.3: 256 KB
GRAPHIC MODES 320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512
COLORS Palette: 4096
On screen: 16 in 640 modes, 32 in 320 modes, 64 in EHB, 4096 in HAM
SOUND 4 channel 8 bit PCM, stereo output
My first PC was a hp pavilion desktop cant remember much about it really, although it had a 3gb harddrive and 128mb ram
Then a dell dimension 2350
Intel? Pentium? 4 that runs at 2.50 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally;
Maximum memory 1 GB
DDR SDRAM
I now have a acer aspire m7711
CPU Model | Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 | Case Type | Mid-Tower |
CPU Frequency | 2.5 GHz | Monitor | 22" flat screen |
Harddisk | 640 GB (7200rpm) | Memory | 4096 MB |
Chipset | NVIDIA nForce 720i | Maximum Memory | 8192 MB |
Graphic Card | NVIDIA GeForce GT-130 | Optical Drive | DVD SuperMulti Label Flash |
Graphic RAM | 1536 MB | Interfaces | 10 USB, S/PDIF, Wireless LAN, IEEE 1394 |
Card Reader | Multi-in-1 card reader | Others | Two 3.5" Front-Accessible Tool-Less swap HDD drive bays |
Operating System | Windows Vista Home Premium | Added | extra 1tb hard drive, 2 external 300gb h/d |
Forgot to mention the Laptop Acer Aspire 5735
* Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200
* 1 MB L2 Cache, 2.0 GHz, 667 MHz FSB
* 15.6″ WXGA (HD) Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD (1366 x 768)
* 2048MB DDR2 667 MHz Dual Channel Memory
* 160GB SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive
* 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
* 5-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
* 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
* 4 ? USB 2.0 Ports
* Windows Vista Home Premium
Sorry I went on a bit there :innocent: