Hello ... Happy New year!

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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

[Charlie]

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

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

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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.

[Charlie]

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.

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

[HeidiT]

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?

[Charlie]

HeidiT & asm1

Bring back the zx81 - I say!

[Steveee-B]

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

[Diego]

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 :¬)