Home Computer our Saviour

The birth of home computer (Picture Above a Famous Sinclair ZX Spectrum) although at the beginning is a costly affair, not everyone can afforded one. In its early years fortune have been made and lost through the sudden boom and crash in microcomputer sales.
Once the price of a computer had dropped to about the price of a TV set, thousands of people flocked to buy one. When the boom is over, the computers lie forgotten in cupboards in many homes. And, in some offices, microcomputers that were expected to solve all the problems of the company have hardly ever been used. Yet elsewhere, computers are hard at work, performing a vast range of tasks.
At the beginning promises, yes....promises. Do you like hang gliding, sailing, flying or golf?.
Whatever your field of interest, the computer will enable you to enjoy it without leaving your home. Well, may be!
The dramatic drop in prices that caused the home computer boom in early 1980s.
Actually what the computer promises in 80's still more or less haven't come true. Although graphics and sound, along with all gadget that can be connected to computer have improved tremendously but it'll never get closer to total realism or will it be in next decade...or how many decades it will be soon. See ya....

Learning the computer trade

School days, in 1979 there is no computer at all. It seem computer didn't exist, nobody talk about it, it's just unknown to anyone. There is no school computer lab and they (the teachers) do their works manually, be it record keeping or grading the student grade. Although some people heard about it's just another new thing, not a necessity. It's not important and it might be some kind a luxury stuff that people can't afford one.
For me, I heard there is a home computer after high school, before that IBM personal computer is well known computer is only perfect in "higher place". Yes, home computer that didn't cost arm and leg, with colour graphics and sound. Wow.. that my first impression. You can do a lot of things that you can think off, although that time I didn't think about you have to do programming. Yes, Programming, in order to archive all that you have to program the damn thing. But everything is settle down, I mean you don't have to do all that, you can by buy commercially available software, either in the form of cassette, cartridge or diskette. Hooray...that time it's cost as low as 8 sterling pound up to 15 sterling pound depending on the medium you choose. Another source of software is from a magazine, yes...computer magazine that flourish in beginning of 80's but here the Type-in the called it, you have to type the Basic Programming language into the respective computer. It's a fun thing, while you learn the language although some time frustrated but who care that why you bought the computer in the first place, to learn a new trade. Okay see you again...

How it all started-My Computer Journey in 80's

(Picture above one of the excellent 80's Home Computer, The Commodore C-64)

What I want to rant here probably not to your liking or probably you might said get on with you life. For me it's my memory of how I get to know computer and the best thing it's 80's the decade where I'm grown as teenager. Where the 80's is most memorable time for me, we are young and restless. The decade that infant computer technology grow to a massive unthinkable prophecy to where we are now.

Most of the time I remember what really made me admire computer so much. TV yes television is the medium that responsible for getting me an exposure to a computer. I'd remember watching on TV in the end of 70's, either drama, action, science fiction or even cartoon, where sometimes it's feature a computer, either it's a mainframe computer, personal computer, micro computer or even hand held computer that's all forefathers of today fantastics advancement. All this really make me excited and make me like to learn more, although in my country information about computer is very limited and the shop selling computer..well you can count by hand. The library..well in begining of 80's there is very limited books on computer. Although I'd borrowed a book like, Video Cookbook, How to build your own simple computer that's no screen, only LED...LOL..and you know what it's all useless for me I can't build any of it...I don't have money you see. I'm just a teenager that still in high school..no money...Actually, here in town itself you can't find any shop selling electronic parts to build this home brew computer either, so there is no point borrow all this book beside admire the schematic and really just for a good and exciting reading.

Well there other best thing is 80's music, the New Wave we'll talk some more later.