The origins of my computing journey
My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned.
At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session so that it didn't vanish when turning off the machine.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Introduction and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC programming guides that came with the device were my first learning resources, complemented by the great Italian computer magazine MC-microcomputer. Aside from some books, in that pre-online era technical documentation wasn't easy to come by in Italy, especially foreign works in English.
I pored over the Spectrum manuals, reread them many times, and experimented with the sample code. I've never been into gaming but did run many games to see what the machine could do.
I've come a long way since then, hopefully.
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