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May 9, 2022·edited May 9, 2022Liked by Luigi Cappel

First computer - 286 with co-pro, two floppies. Couldn't afford the 20 MB hard drive. Tiko the brand maybe, can't remember. I guess around '84, I wrote my thesis in it. And printed, dot matrix nightmare for two days lol.

Split Enz, I recall a pretty wild show in the early days, late 70's - in a theatre in an arcade at the bottom of Queen Street - called Christmas Pandemonium iirc, a nod to Panto I guess....

Also this was pre Neil Finn by quite some time. Was probably still at school :)

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Twin Floppies. That's what my parents worked on. As you probably know, my father wrote many books and plays. I now have the fun job of putting floppies into his old PC before it is consigned to recycling. Might have to dredge back my MSDOS skills!

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Will check out Split Enz for sure! My first PC ran DOS and I remember playing games like Alley Cat. My next pc was one that my dad’s company sold him at a cheap rate: it had a Celeron processor and ran Win95. Good old days! Love your posts, Luigi!

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Many thanks Nikhil. Neil Finn was a founder of Split Enz and later Crowded House. He joined Fleetwood Mac a couple of years ago. Left again recently to explore more opportunities.

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