Haha, wild story! The 99/4A was made to program, but how could anyone with that keyboard. Next we got a PC, a monochrome Panasonic ‘laptop’ with 2 5 1/4 disk drives. A little bit of turtle there but I never really caught on and was mostly gaming.
And while others had the cool stuff like c64 and later Amiga we always only had a pc, but we know how that turned out.
Heh, I actually had an Amiga later on. My parents were proper broke, in hindsight they bought me computers when I was young because they prob thought I’d be a high earning computer guy someday. Didn’t turn out that way, but I was lucky. First computer I bought with my own money was a 386, I think it was 33mhz.
Yeah I remember those 5 &1/4 inch discs. I think they must be where the term ‘floppy disc’ comes from. Heh, lotsa ppl these days grew up on cloud storae
Yeah I was into gaming when I was a little kid (jet set willy on Lisa lot the spectrum!), then into coding, then into other shit for a long time. I’m only recently getting back into gaming again (got a steam deck a year ago)
And yeah, PC gaming. Ideally on 0linux - I’m not one of those linux evangelists but it’s less stress and I feel like games run better.
I’ve actually got a mate who has made a kind of music career using an Amiga. Like, it’s part of his setup just like the decks.
If I may ask, in which field did you end up working?
For me it actually turned out to be IT, and being in the field of specialists that are actively recruited. Gaming always stayed.
There were even bigger floppies before then where the term might have started but the 5 1/4 were those I first knew, with the low capacity (360kb?). It’s still crazy how the amount of memory/storage rose and I sometimes lose track because of that (MB? GB? TB!) as well as my own age (mostly because I don’t care.
Lol I work in public parks picking up litter. It wouldn’t be unfair to say I wasted my abilities, but I had fun doing it. For a while I was getting into early AI stuff in the 90s, but then girls and drugs got in the way. I’ve only recently been getting back into gaming.
Yeah it’s amazing to me the way I’ve seen tech advance during my lifetime. Those 5 1/4 floppies were incredible at the time, especially for those of us who had previously been saving our code on cassette recorders - but compare that shit with a micro SD card and wow, seems beyond exponential.
I do sometimes think I’d like to start coding again, just for my own pleasure, but I’d be pretty much starting from scratch and TBH I don’t have a lot of time. Also, feels a bit pointless when Claude or whatever would probably do a better job lol
Wow, I honestly think what you’re doing is far more of a service to humanity than working for any soulless corporation enriching someone. So 👍 to that.
Lol cheers. TBH I’ve had jobs that paid better, but this is strangely satisfying, and I like working outdoors. Shame the wage is shit, but you can’t have everything.
Haha, wild story! The 99/4A was made to program, but how could anyone with that keyboard. Next we got a PC, a monochrome Panasonic ‘laptop’ with 2 5 1/4 disk drives. A little bit of turtle there but I never really caught on and was mostly gaming.
And while others had the cool stuff like c64 and later Amiga we always only had a pc, but we know how that turned out.
Heh, I actually had an Amiga later on. My parents were proper broke, in hindsight they bought me computers when I was young because they prob thought I’d be a high earning computer guy someday. Didn’t turn out that way, but I was lucky. First computer I bought with my own money was a 386, I think it was 33mhz.
Yeah I remember those 5 &1/4 inch discs. I think they must be where the term ‘floppy disc’ comes from. Heh, lotsa ppl these days grew up on cloud storae
Yeah I was into gaming when I was a little kid (jet set willy on Lisa lot the spectrum!), then into coding, then into other shit for a long time. I’m only recently getting back into gaming again (got a steam deck a year ago)
And yeah, PC gaming. Ideally on 0linux - I’m not one of those linux evangelists but it’s less stress and I feel like games run better.
I’ve actually got a mate who has made a kind of music career using an Amiga. Like, it’s part of his setup just like the decks.
If I may ask, in which field did you end up working?
For me it actually turned out to be IT, and being in the field of specialists that are actively recruited. Gaming always stayed.
There were even bigger floppies before then where the term might have started but the 5 1/4 were those I first knew, with the low capacity (360kb?). It’s still crazy how the amount of memory/storage rose and I sometimes lose track because of that (MB? GB? TB!) as well as my own age (mostly because I don’t care.
Lol I work in public parks picking up litter. It wouldn’t be unfair to say I wasted my abilities, but I had fun doing it. For a while I was getting into early AI stuff in the 90s, but then girls and drugs got in the way. I’ve only recently been getting back into gaming.
Yeah it’s amazing to me the way I’ve seen tech advance during my lifetime. Those 5 1/4 floppies were incredible at the time, especially for those of us who had previously been saving our code on cassette recorders - but compare that shit with a micro SD card and wow, seems beyond exponential.
I do sometimes think I’d like to start coding again, just for my own pleasure, but I’d be pretty much starting from scratch and TBH I don’t have a lot of time. Also, feels a bit pointless when Claude or whatever would probably do a better job lol
Wow, I honestly think what you’re doing is far more of a service to humanity than working for any soulless corporation enriching someone. So 👍 to that.
Lol cheers. TBH I’ve had jobs that paid better, but this is strangely satisfying, and I like working outdoors. Shame the wage is shit, but you can’t have everything.