[tonyedgecombe]

Playing moon landing on an old TI programmable calculator[1].

From there I used to travel into the Computing Teaching Centre in Oxford University on weekends to write BASIC on a CTL Modular One[2]. I had no idea of the significance at the time but I met Tony Hoare[3] there on numerous occasions. It was a friend who got us in, I think he just knocked on the door and said can we play with your computers and remarkably they said yes. I was 14 or 15 at the time.

The first computer I owned was an Acorn System 1[4], 1KB RAM, 512 bytes ROM and a 7 segment calculator display. I had to work through the summer holidays picking fruit to pay for it. I spent countless hours hand assembling code for it, I think the biggest project I did was a Forth like language.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-57 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Technology_Limited#Th... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_System_1