The begining...
Many moons ago, I wrote program code for a living, I was a coder and to say I enjoyed it would be an understatement, I was obsessed by it and as a consequence by tech in general, I was a great big computer geek. I started leaning Basic on a Commodore 16 when I was about 8 or 9 years old. Where it all started. Then there was the Amstrad CPC464 and then the tech loves of my life an Amiga 500+ and a copy of Amos Basic followed closely by an Amiga 1200 and a copy of Storm C. I learnt C++ an University I wrote C and C++ code for my first job, a small company on a local industrial estate and the code ran on custom touchscreen operated Linux consoles. This was back when Memory and CPU resources were tight, touchscreen only consoles were not common, PS/2 was just becoming the connector of choice for keyboards and mice and sometimes to get your screen to display data at the speed you were scrolling through it you had to embed some assembly code. Look at ho...