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george III, amber text screen, and playing chess whilst the computer took four hours to do what would now be done in four millisecs, breaking off occasionally to change tape or EDS... mis-spent youth you might say....
George IV, , PDP 8, ICL1902 & Hollerith Cards and then a teletype to the mainframe with a thing called BASIC using something called ASCII. Before that it was switches, assembler, APL and PL/1. Onto Exidy Sorcerer, the Atom, Electron and rocketed into BBC BASIC with its Models A/B and Acorn Archimedes, meeting Computer Concepts and ArtWorks. All could be taken apart physically and logically so never had the need for Apple II or later.

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