I live in Adelaide, Australia and have worked with computers since around 1970.

The first computer I had access to was an IBM 360 with paper card input and an IBM Selectric typewriter for output. Later, while at Uni, I had access to DEC PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers and a Data General Nova with a drum memory (not a hard disk but a hard drum - a cylinder - a bit like an Edison phonograph but bigger (and MUCH heavier).

Then I worked with MAI/Basic4 minicomputers with magnetic core memory and programmed in Business Basic.

Then I moved on to Qantel minicomputers programmed in Qantel QicBasic.

During this time I also had access to what were then called Microcomputers (later called PCs). Initially these ran interpretive Microsoft Basic as their programming language AND operating system on 8" floppy disks. These machines then morphed over to Digital Research's CP/M operating system with 320Kb 5.25" floppy disks but still programmed in Microsoft Basic and towards the end of the CP/M days we actually had 5Mb 5.25" hard disks.

Then came the IBM-PC with 360kb floppy disks and 10Mb or 20Mb hard disks - but I still programmed in Microsoft Basic.

Times moved on and we got 386, 486 and 586 computers and Microsoft Windows (and for a while IBM OS/2 and Digital Research GEM). I now mostly program in Visual Basic with mostly MS-Access and SQL Server databases and use Crystal Reports for report generation.

I frequently use HTML/CSS, XML, Javascript, VBScript, PHP, SQL, Awk and other tools. My text editor of choice is JGSoft's EditPadPro.

My main machine runs windows 10 64-bit with 16Gb of RAM, a 256Gb Intel SSD, a 4Tb WD hard disk and a few other smaller hard disks thrown in as well as a 3Tb Synology RAID-5 NAS. I use VMWare Workstation 12 to host a number of virtual machines running Win-XP-32, Win-7-32, Win-7-64, Win-8.1-32, Win-8.12-64 and Win-10-32 on my main computer but also have an VMWare ESXi host with all of these operating systems plus many more including Win 3.11m, Win-95b, Win-98SE, Win2000, Vista, Ubuntu, Solaris, RedHat, ChromeOS, BEOS and a few other operating systems (can't remember all of them).