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I wonder what that kid ended up doing for a profession and what he thinks of today's computers. That BBC news report is interesting as it puts about 60 years o
by hilbert42 1y ago
I wonder what that kid ended up doing for a profession and what he thinks of today's computers.
That BBC news report is interesting as it puts about 60 years of tech/computing progress into perspective.
Now extrapolate 60 years hence—right, today's mind just boggles.
- cgsmith 1y agoI was also thinking something similar. If it was me as a child it would be quite nostalgic to see a video of myself at 4 years old with my father.
- hilbert42 1y agoWell, I actually remember much of that time myself. About a year or so after that video was made I was learning to program in Fortran on the university's IBM-360 mainframe. (Learning to program was compulsory for anyone studying science, engineering and mathematics and the subject was a part of the math curriculum.) So I was ready when the early processors, 8080/5, Z80 and 8086 arrived a few years later. In fact I was running both DR's CP/M and Tim Patterson's SCP DOS on an S-100 system around the time Microsoft bought the product and renamed it MSDOS.