My First Computer
I was thinking recently about computers, computing and programming. I realised that this year marks forty four years since I bought my first computer, a Dragon 32. I had wanted to get a ZX Spectrum previously, but they were in short supply and so I waited until the Dragon 32 appeared on the market. In 1981 a shipmate of mine who had a ZX80 and had just bought the new ZX81. These were the first personal computers I had seen, tiny plastic boxes with the worst keyboards ever invented. They weren’t that cheap but the build quality certainly felt like it. Plug them into the TV and hook a cassette player load a bit of code and a whole new world opened up before our eyes. ...