Memories

Is anyone else old enough to remember these.

The first Apple iMac desktop computer.
More clearing out of storage areas brought this out in the open.

This wasn’t our first venture into home computing. It started with a Sharp where you put programs in on a tape cassette. Then like many others we graduated to a BBC Micro model B and a floppy disc. And next came an Archimedes.

But it was when Mrs. K. joined a national group of maths teachers writing sixth form maths textbooks that we began to help making Apple the world’s richest company.

You would be astonished to learn just how many Apple products the Knottmans have owned in the past thirty years. Desk top computers, laptops, a laser printer, iPod, IPads and iPhones.

Many of them have now gone to the next world.
But somehow there is an emotional attachment to this one which makes it difficult to take it to the tip even though it will never work again. At one point there was an idea of turning it into a tropical fish tank.

Its like the beautiful Bang and Olufson reel to reel tapedeck which we bought in 1965. Then CDs came along. But it was such a beautiful machine that I could not throw it away. I eventually found a B & O dealer who was creating a museum of the company’s products and I happily gave it to him.

Does anyone else fall in love with machines?