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Hi Folks

I'm Andrew and I'm in Glasgow, Scotland. Like a few people here I've bought a Scroll from ebuyer - seemed a pretty good price. I don't actually have the device yet although it is due to be delivered tomorrow.... lol the day I go back to work boo.

I'm a gadget nut like most of you, and an ARM fanatic from way back in the bad old days when ARM chips were made by and for Acorn Computers ("who?!!" I hear you shout ) I won't bore you silly with my list of retro gear... but anyways.

I'm actually looking to trial the scroll as an e-reader, my mum is after one, and we cant/wont justify the extortionPad - market leader or not . I read already that people in here have Kindle for android working on it... any joy with B&N's Nook app ?

Cheers

Andrew

asm1

Acorn Computers ("who?!!" I hear you shout )

reading that has taken me back a bit, i remember them.

hehe.

Comes from my being in school late 80's early 90's and my mum beng a teacher.

Started with a BBC Micro and moved to an Acorn A3010... Sold my kit about 12 years ago (regret it now) but starting to get back into it again.

Oh yes the bbc micro - my cousin's dad got him one when they 1st came out. I used the get to play on it in school hols.

then came the RM nimbus on a big red trolley at our primary school, that was all the rage then.

Oh God... the RM Numbus...... *shudders* LOL

My first computer (in the early '80s) was a Commodore 64.

I completed a GCSE in Computer Literacy on a BBC Micro in 1989.

Computers have moved on a bit since then, haven't they?

HeidiT & asm1

Bring back the zx81 - I say!

My dad bought me and my sister a ZX81...... Remember spending hours typing in the programs in "Basic" then playing a game that lasts a few seconds. Meteour was my favourite. Ha, ha.....

10 Print "Meteour"

Run

Meteour

The first computer I worked with was the TRS-80 (Tandy - Radio Shack) model 1:



It had a whopping 2k (!) of memory and no peripherals (except a cassette tape, which never worked). Then came models 2 and 3.

The Apple IIe was a godsend and I spent my last year of highschool programming it for the school. I just missed getting on the IBM 8086/8, but made up for that years later when I returned to computers and picked up an XT in a wireless alarm installation.

Ah, the days :¬)