Well… not so sudden.. but yesterday I realised that this year will be the 30th anniversary of the first time I sat down in front of a blinking white cursor.
Said cursor was a small rectangular block, about 4 millimetres by 5 millimetres, and the machine was the Radio Shack TRS-80 — bought by my father for what is, now, quite a lot of money for a computer, comparatively speaking. That was also the year I started to learn programming (BASIC) — using a book which was the inspiration for my own programming book for kids. I was 8 years old at the time (in case you were wondering).
Thirty years is quite a long time to be using computers — although that’s elapsed time, rather than actual. There was a good period in my late teens when motorbikes were far cooler than computers…
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