My first experience with a computer was during my university student days. As a Bachelor of Science undergraduate studying Biology, it was compulsory to study Biometry, and this included a module which attempted to make one familiar with MINITRAN : a subset/dialect of FORTRAN. The experience of pushing out punchcard holes with a paperclip and waiting for the batch to be processed did nothing to inspire me.

The next encounter was at Penrith High in 1979, when I was appointed to a Science faculty which had bought a Tandy TRS80.
I found it an interesting toy, and resurrected my vague programming knowledge to get it to produce figures that demonstrated population growth etc. for my Biology class. I've been interested in educational applications of computers ever since.

I really started to get interested in the use of computers in 1980 when I spent a year studying Librarianship.....and my involvement has steadily grown.

The links below reflect my historical and current interests in this field.

Emulation:

But please don't ask me for ROM's or even help with these - there's lots of help out there on the 'net.


Emulating an Amiga? It took quite a while due the special Amiga chips.

If you want to turn your Windows Pentium into an Amiga, try these links:

http://home6.inet.tele.dk/aqvist/uae/

Want to turn your Windows Pentium into a Macintosh? Try these links:

http://www.pona.net/basilisk/

Remember the machine that started the home computer revolution?

Make your Windows Pentium REALLY retro.....:

http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~it048/emulator/appleii/appleii.html

And who could forget the Amiga's early rival, the Atari ST ?

These guys certainly haven't:

And just for fun: Emulate a Gameboy or a Palm Pilot

http://www.palm.com/devzone/pose/pose.html

Own an Amiga or a Mac or Linux box or something more exotic, and feeling left out? Try these general emulation links:

http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~it048/welcome.html Stephan's retrocomputing site

The Real Things:

Linux Just one starting point...

Apple

Microsoft