I have habbit of reading something while I eat. As todays lunch plate was brought to me, I happened to pick sisters book lying on the table for reading.
It was a book on cryptography...I recollected golden days of college when I was usually burried behind thik reference books...most common were electronics and pc troubleshooting books.
In the evening surfing session, I opened up Wiki page for Prince of Persia...from there slowly I reached to Rotoscoping, ZX Spectrums, IBM PCs and so forth (rather back).
IBM PC compatible was the first PC I started to work with. I was in 9th Standard when I started to learn GW-BASIC. So many sweet memories are associated with those times...If I sit remembering all of those, time will fly fast.
It seems like yesterday when I put my hands first time on a PC keyboard, 1.44MB Floppy, CGA/MDA Monitors, HDD, PC Quest magazines, ISA cards (I was called Kard Boy in college!).
The moments when I used those infamous software for first time are still fresh for me - GW-BASIC, Dangerous Dave, Checkit, Norton Antivirus, Lotus 1-2-3, dBASE III+, Wordstar, Windows...The nostalgia will never cease to amuse me!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_persia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2
http://digitize.textfiles.com/items/1982-ibm-personal-computer/
