'bout computers...

I like to collect obsolete (I prefer to call them lovely-old) computers:

My computer background


I started programming microprocessors on 1986, when I bought my first computer, a powerful TS-1500 with a whole 16 KB RAM. Those were long days of hard work as a service technician at a manufacturing facility, and long nights studying at the local university.

A couple of years later, I bought my first TS-2068. Wow, 48K RAM were really enough for anybody (..mmm... I've heard this somewhere...) . My work had changed to an installation technician on a local big company, but as years before, when I was back at home, I spent many nights awake learning the tricks and tips of Electronics and Microprocessors, and how to deal with a Z-80 was one of these. This way I run for a job as a research and development technician, where I succeeded.

We made a couple of Z-80 based modems at job, and I developed many I/O interfaces for my beloved machine, as joystick ports, printer interfaces, serial interfaces, a background spooler (can you imagine a TS-2068 spooling a document to the printer while you keep on typing on the screen ???), and a pretty small multitasking kernel, hosting my I/O libraries. Good things are not for ever, so a change in our customs politics made the company think about importing instead of developing and so I was again as a service staff man. The only way to develop was staying awake once more. A couple of years later, I bought my first Amiga computer, it was an A500, which is now on my child's room (my wife uses it). Later I bought my A1200, the second Amiga, and powered it up as much as I could.

My last developments on old computers included hardware to software, . I designed a MIDI interface, a disk expansion, a TV modulator and an audio digitizer for my Amigas.
I have kept assembler programming in the microprocessor/microcontroller world, but I have moved to C when programming on computers, is much more comfortable.

As Amiga stuff is becoming extinct, and I don't like using Wintel stuff, and Mac stuff is harder to find and quite more expensive (here in Arg.), I do my personal stuff on Linux (AMD powered ;^).

This marked an end for my computing passion

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