My history with computers
As one of my lighter blog posts, I’ll be telling that story that every engineer gets to tell as some point: the reason why I got into this whole thing in the first place. It’s a topic that comes up from time to time so I thought I’d write it here for posterity. Catching the bug As a child of late 1980s, I grew up during the period where computers were there in schools and starting to appear in homes. But I started my journey a little earlier when, as a 6-year old, I used an old second-hand typewriter my mother bought for me to type out pages from my favourite books and to write little stories. I have these fond memories of grabbing a few ladybird books, taking the typewriter out of it’s little bag and pressing pressing each of the keys. These smooth cream coloured keys, the sound of the line change and the smell of ink. I’m an overly nostalgic hipster who still owns one of these old machines, but I understand the nostalgia as it really is the first thing that got me hooked on being able to type words and create a thing. ...