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It all started at
Flanders Technology International in 1987... a tech
expo where an eleven-year-old watched a wooden block move across a
desk and an arrow follow it on screen. That was it. That was the
moment. He
had to have a computer with a mouse.
What followed was a story of after-school showroom squatting,
summer jobs, game piracy, a modem bill that nearly gave his
parents a heart attack, and an education in computing that no
school could have provided.
From the
Amstrad PC1512 and the GEM windowing system, to the
Schneider Euro PC with its infamous
Turbo button that turned Ms. Pac-Man into a half-second
blur — this episode is a love letter to the glorious chaos of home
computing in the late 1980s.
Along the way: the satisfying clatter of a
matrix printer
, the dark arts of
config.sys and
autoexec.bat
,
Digger
, the allure of the
Commodore 64
, forbidden floppy disks at computer club, a 2400-baud modem, and
the very first taste of online community — long before anyone
called it the internet.
The computers
Amstrad PC1512 — the showroom machine that started it all
Schneider Euro PC — the computer-in-a-keyboard with the
infamous Turbo button
Commodore 64 — legendary sounds, legendary forbidden
floppy disks
Play the games
Digger — play in your browser
Ms. Pac-Man — play in your
browser
Samantha Fox Strip
Poker (C64)
Leisure Suit Larry —
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places — play in your
browser
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