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The Lunduke Journal – makes you happy
Read The Lunduke Journal and you get tremendous joy from someone’s dedication to
something – anything. In this case, Computer History.
A nice article is for example The History of The Graphical User Interface.
My computer history: from Texas Instruments and Toshiba to Ideapad and MacBook Pro
History of My Computers
A personal inventory, from TI-99/4A to MacBook
At some point, I realised that I have owned more computers than I could easily remember. Not because I collect them, but because they have quietly accompanied different phases of my life: learning, working, travelling, writing.
I felt like making a nerdy list. The computers I have owned. A history.
BTW also worked with DEC 10, VAX, ICL mainframe – VME, IBM mainframe – System 390 and beyond, Solaris, Aix.
Early Encounters
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Talks BASIC. Peek and Poke to move you directly into its memory.
Toshiba MSX computer HX-10AA
Running the failed MSX operating system standard. You could already do a lot more with it.
The PC era
Entering the world of the wonderful 5¼-inch floopy disk, after the horror of using cassettes with the home computers.
Tulip PC compatible
Yes Tulip was a Dutch brand making computers. We did computers in the Netherlands. Philips has made computers, but missed a boat. Tulip was a nice brand, and worth a rabbit-hole but not now, just one mention: it bought the Commodore computer brand in 1997.
IBM PS2
Unimaginative bulky thing. Dialed into the Internet with it for the first time. Via Compuserve. Forums were the big thing (in nerd world, that is). Email. DOOM.
Portables (sort of)
IBM Thinkpad 500
My first portable, in quotes. The thing weighed a ton. Literally a brick.
IBM Thinkpad T20, T30, T41
All very good and enormously robust laptops. Great trackpoint thing to move the screen pointer. Missing that today still.
Lenovo T410
After IBM sold the PC division to Lenovo, switched to that brand.
Lenovo T410
Apple years
Apple MacBook 2009
This was my first MacBook. Only then did I notice that the Mac user experience was so incredibly better than that of Windows. It also boots within 10 seconds, whereas my Windows machines always take over a minute or even (much) longer.
Apple Macbook Pro 2013
By far the best of them all. Still performs top notch. Indestructible.
Lenovo Ideapad 510
Becoming a freelancer, I needed a Windows machine.
This is a plastic device. Poor touchpad. But then again, it is by far the cheapest on the list.
HP EliteBook 1040 G3
Pretty robust and comfortable. But not at the Lenovo level with comparable models.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)
With touch bar. Could have left that out from me. Steve Jobs said correctly that people don’t know what they want, but the touch bar is definitely not what I want.
Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro
Nice machine. If it had the track point I had on the IBM T40 and follow-on models, I would be happier. The touchpad is ok, but not at the Mac level.
Update 2025: still working on a Lenovo Ideapad, and the MacBook. The gap between macOS and Windows is narrowing. I have some old laptops running Linux, which is doable but only because I am a techie. I think my next machine will be a Framework. We should be able to repair our stuff.
Clown in het bos bij Castricum
We lopen in het bos tussen Castricum en Heemskerk.
Een man en een vrouw met een hondje komen ons tegemoet. De vrouw spreekt ons aan.
“Leidt dit pad naar de parkeerplaats? Ja ik vraag het maar voor de zekerheid, want hij is een clown!”
“Ooh, Oh, Oh, Oooh,” zegt de man.
Later lopen we langs de bunker waar in de tweede wereldoorlog kunst uit het Stedelijk museum en het Rijksmuseum waren opgeslagen. De Nachtwacht werd er onder andere, opgerold, bewaard.
Even verderop wordt de slag bij Castricum, in 1799, herdacht. In deze tijd was ons land als De Bataafse Republiek nog een vazalstaat van Frankrijk.
Jimmy’s Carting services on Sark
In 2019, we were on the island of Sark. I wrote about this then on this article.
I was in the harbor at the time I took the photo. We are looking at the man on the back wearing a polo shirt advertising Jimmy’s Carting Services on the back.
Later, I looked for more information about Sark. I stumbled upon Jimmy’s history.
Jimmy turns out to be a Scot who moved to Sark. I quote his story here, which concludes with a nice photo.
Jimmy was wooed by Sark back in 2000, when he responded to an advert in his local job centre, advertising bar work at Stocks Hotel. With two suit cases, Jimmy left his Scottish town of Armadale, and set off for Sark. When he arrived, he felt immediately that Sark was a special place, and that he would like it here. He proceeded to walk up Harbour Hill and through the village with his bags (this was before he realised that a carter could take them for you…).
Jimmy had planned to work a season in Sark, but secured some extra maintenance work at the Hotel for the winter. This episode in his life ended up as a permanent stay on the Island. Jimmy worked in several places, and then in 2012 the idea came up from his good friend Nicola about acquiring an existing carting business. Jimmy’s Carting was presently born.
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In 2013, Jimmy modelled in the Emergency Services calendar produced by local photographers Sue Daly and Lydia Bourne, which raised £7000 for charities. Jimmy always turned up for photoshoots with a smile on his face, even if that was all he was wearing!
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