Inside the lives of children pre-computer is a singular fact, his first contact with the bug. "
Before that fateful day, the children had had an antecedent pre-computer in contact with the little sisters of the "bug", small calculators, the first of the four rules of arithmetic and a little more, then the key scientific mystery for more than I read the instructions, and end in the programmable college years.
These "bugs" were mainly of three families, the most popular was CASIO, HP and more refined and Texas were inc., Normally reached us through a relative who had brought you Canaries, Ceuta and Melilla.
had names like The Casio fx-108, fx-120 and the like, until his sisters appeared calculators screen and button cell battery, it was foolhardy to go to an exam without batteries spare, you could be hung in the middle of the exam.
When we were getting accustomed to them and even dominabanos, I get the "bug", his brother, the computer or PC.
My first contact with him was the year before starting at university, in the final year of institute, which in my time was called COU. Physics professor became the first PC for school, and spent a month to teach the BASIC programming language was the language he understood the "bug".
Although we were not many in the class, only you play the class nerd, I who sat in the back row, just get to see who had keys like a typewriter and display as the living room television, I also heard that he had something called CPU that eventually I would find out who was the mastermind of the "bug".
At that time gets to learn to program in BASIC solving the quadratic equation. I'm an idea that dissolute many years, that every contact of a human with a computer would be provided through the program, and then emerges the concept of computer user and the future existence of the Internet, was the year 1981.
finished the course, including the University, School of Civil Engineers of Madrid and the early years after reaching two subjects that flirted shyly with the "bug" did teach us a language FORTRAN programming and other language PASCAL.
But it was only a statement of intent, because the school was not "bugs" where you can practice.
Already in 1987, while I bought my CASIO programmable calculator and my first "bug"
an Amstrad PC green phosphor monitor, the two understood only BASIC as a means of communication with them. The calculator was very helpful in my final year career, using software made by me or by peers.
The Amstrad PC, a relative of the Spectrum had not only helped me to monitor them utilizaren those early games were loaded with cassette tape.
At that time I saw my younger brothers toddle MSDOS operating system, to me after so many abortive contacts with the "bug" phobia MSDOS gave me, and there was in me an away from everything that smelled a "bug" in those years that ended my college career.
Finish in college, I had to enter the workforce and had the complex of being a total computer useless, lost to the cause, were the years in which the windows were replacing msdos
Then I was lucky to find a collection of Books, Computers for Dummies, illustrated by the genial Forges, the first gave it to me my little sister, however, was already a computer adult, and with them I could finish my pre-computer personal development of child to adult computer.
I invite you to my blog http://losninospreinformaticos.blogspot.com where all the life adventures of these characters at the end of the twentieth century.
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