Tom Sparks

"It's a nerdy thing I like to do" Child of the Internet born 1983 the year of the Internet's (TCP/IP) birth

Moree, NSW

About Me

• I discovered floss software about 2000
• I started playing around with ubuntu about 2006/7 after hear about Windows Vista
• I started fully using ubuntu about late 2009

• Now the whole house is Ubuntu powered

• I am also retro computer user

currently I have 4 computers running ubuntu (xubuntu)

• MythTV eeepc nettop b202 xubuntu 10.04 (lost in the Queensland's floods)

• XMBC eeepc netbook 701SD xubuntu 10.04

• eeepc netbook 901 xubuntu 10.04
• Compaq laptop xubuntu 10.04
• Desktop xubuntu 10.04

Some of my retro computer hardware:

• Amiga A500

• Amiga A1200

• SAM440 running Amiga OS 4.1.2

• Roland DXY-1300 pen plotter

• Cutok DC330 cutter/pen plotter

Some of my Retro Computer software:

• Amiga OS 4.1.2

• Amiga forever 2006 Premium Edition (workbench 3.X)

• Amiga Forever 2012 Plus Edition (workbench 3.X)

• Workbench 3.1

• Workbench 2.04

• Workbench 1.2

• Aladdin 4D 5.0

Wanted:

• GEOS system (Commodore 64 / Commodore 128)

• Atari ST

• Apple IIGS

• Apple Macintosh (68k/PPC only) System 7.5.5

I have converted about 11 computers in the community and count to xubuntu I don't know if the people are still using ubuntu after I install it