top | item 25488845 (no title) qz2 | 5 years ago Annoying because over here in the UK everyone shrugs if you mention it now. discuss order hn newest stevekemp|5 years ago I think it depends upon the relative age of the people you're talking to.I started playing with a ZX Spectrum back in the early eighties, as a youngster, and directly credit it with my IT-career.I only wish I'd tried writing computer games at the time, instead of hacking existing ones for infinite lives! smartscience|5 years ago Did you have a Multiface? Not all that cheap, but probably ended up teaching me more about low-level programming than anything else, short of writing a Spectrum 128 emulator for Risc OS :) load replies (1)
stevekemp|5 years ago I think it depends upon the relative age of the people you're talking to.I started playing with a ZX Spectrum back in the early eighties, as a youngster, and directly credit it with my IT-career.I only wish I'd tried writing computer games at the time, instead of hacking existing ones for infinite lives! smartscience|5 years ago Did you have a Multiface? Not all that cheap, but probably ended up teaching me more about low-level programming than anything else, short of writing a Spectrum 128 emulator for Risc OS :) load replies (1)
smartscience|5 years ago Did you have a Multiface? Not all that cheap, but probably ended up teaching me more about low-level programming than anything else, short of writing a Spectrum 128 emulator for Risc OS :) load replies (1)
stevekemp|5 years ago
I started playing with a ZX Spectrum back in the early eighties, as a youngster, and directly credit it with my IT-career.
I only wish I'd tried writing computer games at the time, instead of hacking existing ones for infinite lives!
smartscience|5 years ago