A small bit of history

June 7, 2008 Quest No Comments

In the process of spring cleaning my office I came across a long forgotten about running shoe box. Inside which was, wait for it…, the first computer I ever owned! An 8 bit, 48 K Oric Atmos.

 
It is hard to believe that it is 25 years old! The mobile phone in my pocket is considerably smaller, has much greater processing power and storage capacity, oh, and it can make phone calls!

Along with the computer were several games – a couple of “shoot ‘em up” space invader type games and an adventure game based on “The Hobbit”.

 

 Looking back now it seems like something from a previous century.