History

A trip down memory lane …

• 1984
  Bought a Commodore C16 from Dixons. It was a Christmas deal at £100.00. Went up to Tottenham Court Road and bought a (green screen) monitor. Began learning Commodore Basic.

• 1987
  Bought an Atari ST520. Got hold of an Alcyon C compiler/linker and a port of Emacs for the Atari (with source code). Started learning C (and some MC68000 assembly).

• 1993
  Bought a 80386 desktop PC (Dell) running Windows 3.1. Also bought Visual C++ v1.0 Professional (big box delivered from Grey Matter, ~10 manuals, and 20+ diskettes plus a 286 Phar Lap extender). I started learning C/C++7.0, Windows programming and MFC 1.5.

• 1997
  Got a job as a software developer coding in C++. Still enjoying programming in C++, but also C#, Python and R.