It's fascinating, especially as I'm British. We didn't really have the same sort of personal computer war over here as in the U.S. Where the US had a generation grown up learning the hardware inside out, the UK's youth was far more software driven (although Acorn did alter the world with their clever little chip...) due to Sir Clive Sinclair being determined to put a micro-computer on sale for only £100. Granted, 1k of memory wasn't very much. To me and to many other children it was enough to set our imaginations free. So, from the start of the '80s, a nation of children from the age of 5+ knew their PEEK from their POKE... ...and within a few years best selling games (across all micro-computers) were being written by 16 year olds in their bedrooms.(Coders who would go on to lead the way through the 8 and 16 bit era of home micro-computers and on through into the '90s with PC's and consoles becoming the mainstays of a reawakening global video game industry.)
I feel sad for them who lost out
It's fascinating, especially as I'm British.
We didn't really have the same sort of personal computer war over here as in the U.S.
Where the US had a generation grown up learning the hardware inside out, the UK's youth was far more software driven (although Acorn did alter the world with their clever little chip...) due to Sir Clive Sinclair being determined to put a micro-computer on sale for only £100. Granted, 1k of memory wasn't very much. To me and to many other children it was enough to set our imaginations free. So, from the start of the '80s, a nation of children from the age of 5+ knew their PEEK from their POKE...
...and within a few years best selling games (across all micro-computers) were being written by 16 year olds in their bedrooms.(Coders who would go on to lead the way through the 8 and 16 bit era of home micro-computers and on through into the '90s with PC's and consoles becoming the mainstays of a reawakening global video game industry.)
09:53 Bro, let your friend talk. It's not all about you.
Nothing I hear about Steve Jobs is EVER going to make me respect him.
why second part don't have CC?
Makes me want to throw out that quantum computer i got up and running a few year back, think we could do without that.