My name is John Lord, and I live in a town called Gravesend, in
Kent, UK. I was born in 1947, so I'll leave you to work out my
current age. :)) I have been married, and have a son Richard who was born in
Gravesend Hospital in 1979,and a daughter Hazel who was born in
Lewisham Hospital in 1975. I live on my own with a large
selection of plants, mostly cacti. And often get told off when I
say, "I think I might buy that plant". The answer being, "You
aint got the space Dad!", but I usually find somewhere to put it
:) My taste in music is very varied, I like rock through to folk
style, electronic music to some classical, old to modern. So you
could find CDs by Queen, Pink Floyd, ELO, Dire Straits, Vangelis,
Mariah Carey, Beautiful South, Mark Knofler, Fairground
Attraction, Simply Red, and many others. The sort of programs I like on tv are Travel & Exploration,
Science & Sci-Fi, virtually any kind of motor sport, both 2 & 4
wheels, power boat racing. And other things that catch my eye,
like historical documentaries or costume drama. Animals, now I like most kinds of animals, I get a great deal of
pleasure being 'hands on' with them. For example the usual
feelings when you play with, or stroke a cat or dog. I have been
very lucky to go and stay on a farm in Northumberland where they
have horses, sheep, goats and of course the usual compliment of
working border collies and other breeds, and also many cats. And
the pleasure from working with the horses, especially the new
foals is something that I will always remember. To be accepted and trusted by an animal is a very warming and
humbling experience. And I totally abhor any cruelty directed
towards them.
My first Amiga was the good old A500. It came with only 512K chip
mem of course, and had the 1.3 version of Workbench. It came with
Shadow of The Beast II, Days of Thunder, and another game that I
can't remember the name of at the moment. After a while I upgraded it with an additional 1/2 meg of fast
mem for about £60, I think it was, then later on made it a 2Meg
machine, (wow, ...massive) .. :)) I kept this one for a couple of years, adding an extra floppy
drive to it, but not much else. But after the A1200 had been around for about a year, I started
to get a little tired of the A500, you see, it didn't help when
my mate came round on one of his weekly visits, and showed me an
A1200 he had bought. So I started looking around for one too. I eventually found one for sale, and had the chance to buy an
8Meg ram card (populated) with it at the same time. I part
exchanged my A500 for it, and didn't I notice the difference. After the speed of the old machine this new one seemed lightning
fast, (especially with the extra fast ram). So, this machine became the base of what I use today, I now have
a tower bought from a local supplier but not now advertising.
Inside on the motherboard, which is not the original, because I
once plugged something in to the wrong place and ended up sending
smoke signals to the neighbours. But it has all the fixes done to
it so it should be ok. The add-ons are as follows,