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I'm a man born in 1957 and I've had many interests throughout my life, but especially computers and whatnot have had my interest since the early 80's when Sinclair's ZX81 came on the market.

Back then, games and programs were not something you could buy in a store, no, you had to make that kind yourself, save it on cassette tape.
Together with a couple of friends, I helped make a good Othello game on their ZX81.
- I was the guinea pig who had to test the game while they watched and tricked my strategies which they then built into the program, so in the end it became fairly difficult for me to beat the machine. LOL

The machine's built-in 1 KB RAM was obviously not enough for such a program, as far as I remember they had to buy 16 B extra RAM for it. LOL

That experience gave me blood on my teeth, so later I bought a TEXAS TI99/4A myself, and on it I made the first small programs myself.

In '84 I bought an Amstrad CPC 464, which was later replaced by an Amstrad CPC 6128 and the biggest program I made on it was a simulation of a slot machine, where I had been allowed to look into a real mechanical slot machine to be able to find out how the symbols were distributed on the various reels.
I used Z80 machine code for rotation of the wheels, basic worked too slowly to give a realistic rotation.

In the beginning of 95 I bought my first PC and it had the operating system Windows 3.11, which I later upgraded to Windows 95.
Now it was over with programming myself, because everything I needed I could buy, or find as shareware or freeware.

In 1999, I completed a 9-month IT administrator course specializing in web design.
Unfortunately, I never got to use that education professionally, but in addition to web design, I also learned to build my own PC, and one of the PCs I built I configured with Redhat linux, and on that PC I hosted my own website for about 2 years.

Over the following years I built 2 more PC's, after which I gave up in future to build my own PCs because I no longer kept up with the technical development and therefore found it too difficult for me to find components that fit together, so since I gave it up, I have ordered my PCs from professionals , and therefore did not keep me updated with that kind of technical knowledge since 2005.

Thank you for your interest and patience in reading about some of my memories.