I got an Amstrad PCW 9512 back around 1991. It didn’t have anything like Windows. I just used it to write essays (I was taking a theology course at the time), sermons and so on. I think that you could use the BASIC computing language on it and play a few primitive games. It was probably around £500-600.
I was keen to get what we called “An IBM Compatible” computer, but they were around £1,000. In 1993, I got a little Amstrad Notepad NC100, which was portable, but it had a tiny screen. Then in 1996, I got my first Dell computer. It had Windows 3.11 on floppy disks. It did have a CD-ROM though. I remember getting Encarta, Grand Prix 2, and monthly computing magazines (such as PC Format) with free CDs containing sample games. I’m quite nostalgic about all that now 😀. I like finding old Argos Catalogs and newspapers on the web with adverts for 1990s computers.
Things are fab nowadays, with such excellent music apps, Microsoft Copilot and so on. Even though I have a Bible App, I generally look up verses on Bible Gateway. Back in the 1990s, I had the Bible on a floppy disk. And I remember going to an exhibition once here in Limerick where they showed me the Bible on microfiche.
I can think of two computer-related songs, except one isn’t a song – it’s an album. Perhaps we’re at the stage where we really are saying “OK Computer”, with all the Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments. Things could get much scarier in the next few decades.
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