HPR4666: How I got into tech

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I started out with Basic on the TI-99/4A in 1984. The bare machine could not be programmed by the user in machine code. In 1985 I bought a ZX Spectrum, that gave me total control over the machine.

I wrote two FORTH systems on the ZX-Spectrum.

In 1988 I got my first 8088 PC, also programming it in FORTH.

In 1992 I got an 80386 PC and I ran Linux on it. MCC Interim Release from v. This was the first Linux distro.

I have been using Linux ever since.

From then on I obtained newer PCs, such as a Pentium in 1995, a Pentium-2 in 1998, a Pentium-4 in 2003 and a Core-2 Duo in 2006.

I used several Linux distributions: but I always return to Debian.

Links:

• https://github.com/ForthHub/F83 F83.COM is the ready to run FORTH system.
• https://github.com/uho/F-PC F-PC - a Forth system optimized for IBM-PC, XT and AT machines running DOS
• https://www.latte.org/latte.htmlLatte The Language for Transforming Text
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor
• https://www.freebsd.org/
• https://www.debian.org/
• https://www.gentoo.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_(microarchitecture)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)
• https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/217838/12th-generation-intel-core-i5-processors.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11

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