I particularly like question 25- should we have asked any other question- have your say....

In this particular instance, I didn't have anything to add myself, but so many surveys DO leave me wanting to say more, and I've never seen one of those before... I wish?

Have a good one Russ!

I tried your survey and had trouble entering the 1 to 7 sections, well more than a couple of entries

It's forced, so that you can't tick the same ranking for more than one line. Would that be the problem? You should be able to go back to it and?

That email from me in your inbox is work. You can ignore that until after all of your own festivities have subsided.

A gathering of New Zealand radio academics raised their glasses and said nice things about you in Lincoln last week. Let's pretend that was related to?

Best answer to "what should question 25 be?":

Q. 25 please fill in the address you would like your prize sent to!

Heh.

and let me say that i am gadzumped to know that i had my first computer before you did!

zx spectrum, 1982 (or 83? i forget).

mum bought it for me

P.S. That video is just fantastic.

$400 if i remember right.

My family's first computer was a grand ol' Dick Smith VZ200, about 1981. I was jealous of my uncle's ZX81, and then my best friend got a Spectrum... WOW! Made our VZ200 look like a relic. Heh.

My blogging will be light this week. Rest assured that, come the end of the week, I aim to misbehave.

Fantastic!

Many happy ones, Russ! Enjoy it!

My family's first computer was a grand ol' Dick Smith VZ200

Hey, me too, about 1983 or 4 I think. I learned some very basic BASIC trying to teach that thing to do stuff. No memory, of course, so you had to start all over again next time and I?

Housie callers shout out "four five, half way."
23 July; a great day; yeah I'm 59 today.

Yay! You, me and Haile Selassie!

...to tag along with the Chills in Europe...

I remember reading the account of that in Rip It Up, it really captured the obvious sense of adventure of that tour and the trail-blazing The Chills did in Britain and Europe for Flying Nun in that era.

So you'll be getting a telegram from Nandos then?

Why would a takeaway chicken franchise send me a telegram?

But yeah, that did always go down very well with the 12 Tribes people ...

Why would a takeaway chicken franchise send me a telegram?

Well, I suppose you could owe them a lot of money ... telegrams are basically a debt-collection tool for NZ Post now :-)

I was trying to remember when I got my first computer, a Vic 20. It was a Christmas, possible 1983.

In the preceding weeks, my dad had waited until my brother and I were asleep, brought out the computer, and taught himself?

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My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, bought in 1983. We splashed out and got the 16K memory upgrade, as well.

Anyone checked out the computer exhibit at Motat? I was in there at the weekend going "owned one... used one... still got one..." :)

First program I wrote at age 10 was on paper to solve some task that would have been a real chore by hand, finding prime numbers. I didn't get to actually input it on a computer until about 6 months later, a ZX80 belonging to a mate.?

I would go on, but I am making myself miserable.

In the meantime, perhaps you'd be kind enough to complete this survey on your role in the future of television, which is connected with some of the work I'm doing.

I might need to go back and change one of my answers. I've been trolling the web for 5 hours?

Happy Birthday. I remember using a Macintosh for the first time in 1984. It was owned by one Bob Black, who taught Logic at my university. He was an early-adopter, who also had a video disk player. It was all very exciting.

The computer that loved was the Mac I?

I really don't miss dot matrix printers.

I really don't miss dot matrix printers.

I've been using 'puters since the family's first Vic 20 back in the early 80s. There's not much I'd say I miss about any of them – vague sense of nostalgia aside.

The thing that really changed the face of the home computer?

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...to tag along with the Chills in Europe...

I remember reading the account of that in Rip It Up. . .

Would that have included bit about the goth who protested
". . .but it's a gold cross" ?

If so, I really enjoyed that at the time. The good?

a friend-of-a-friend had a Commodore Pet in 1980...we played star trek off cassette tape.
i became part-owner of a Centris 660AV in 1993. Auckland even had a mac bbs. downloaded Netscape?

Also you probably have RSS feeds a-plenty, but I was reading the Observer yesterday and thought of you: http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,2132076,00.html

I beg to report that software piracy and trading was common?

My earliest memories go before that, thought – things like my Dad?

Amstrad 286, in 1991. 1Mb Ram, 40Mb HDD, 12mhz cpu...
Still, it played Dune 2 and the original Civ well...

We had the colour Amstrad with the disk drive that was from some Asian manufacturer's odd lot and had 3.5" diskettes that were physically, as well as logically incompatible with the 3.5" format everyone else used. But it was a major advance over the ZX81, where?

had 3.5" diskettes that were physically, as well as logically incompatible with the 3.5" format everyone else used

THey were incompatible because they were actually 3" drives (assuming you mean the Amstrad CPC, rather than a later Amstrad PC).

FWIW – ZX81 bought in '82/82 who could resist something that lets you PEEK and POKE it?

"everybody needs a bosom for a pillow"

Absolutely jammed in my head now, thanks.

Yup, CPC. It was a long time ago!