This was my first Apple Mac, one of 6 loaned by Apple UK to the Open University in 1984. I was working as BBC TV producer on the first OU course to be prepared to print-ready stage on computers (Professional Judgment), so I got to hog one of them - almost certainly the first Mac to be used anywhere in the BBC. It's a long story, but eventually Apple gave (yes!) the computers to named individuals, including me!!

In 1998 I gave my Mac (with all its bits and pieces including the bespoke carrying case, it's printer and loads of software) to what is now the National Computer Museum, based at Bletchley Park. I dropped it off as agreed when there was nobody about to speak to: they've never had the courtesy to thank me for it let alone send me an aquisition certificate! Today the Museum fielded some machines at a big IT event in Middleton Hall as a kind of set dressing.

I had no idea I would bump into it on my way to John Lewis! I wanted to give it a big hug, but just patted it paternally on the head. Usually it sits in a display at Bletchley Park, and sometimes people can play Frogger on it (running off the external floppy disc drive, which is missing here).

What a nostalgic day! My kids remember this computer well - don't they Longbird? It used to come home at weekends.

Aaaah.