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	My name is Roger Lindberg and I'm 36 years old.   I live in a town called Uddevalla on the west coast of Sweden in a province called Bohuslän.   Just now I work for the computer department at the hospital here, but normally I work at the laboratory as a Laboratory Technologist with responsibility for the computer system at the blood bank.   My wife is Marina and she is russian. She used to live in St. Petersburg, but now she lives with me in Sweden.   My life with computers (sort of) started back in 1977 when I bought a programmable calculator called Commodore (of Amiga fame) PR100. Not many people nowadays know that they started out with calculators.   Anyway, I was hooked from the beginning and loved programming it. I soon realized that it was too slow and lacked some functions I needed so I bought a TI-58 in 1978.   I did a lot of programmes for it, some useful, some not, but what I really wanted was a computer.   It was at this time, at the end of the 70's, that a swedish company called Luxor made the first swedish micro computer called ABC-80.   It was Z80-based with a fairly good Basic, monochrome blocky graphics and a sound chip that wasn't easy to program. My school got a couple of these and I spent most of my free time in front of one.   Then suddenly one day I discovered the SPECTRUM on a magazine cover, two months later I owned one. This was the year 1983. I spent the whole summer, night and day with this computer. This little beast really changed my life!   No real keyboard, no disk drives, no joystick interface, no serial port, no printer port and a lot of other no's, but I had the time of my life!   I always look back at this time with a smile on my face, because everything about computers at this time was fun.   I went to a lot of computer shows in London at middle and end of the 80's and picked up a few really good things for the Speccy. Beta Disk Interface, joystick I/F, Centronics I/F and, best of all, a proper keyboard called SAGA 3. I also bought and used the truly excellent basic called Beta Basic, the first ever Basic I know of that could handle windows. Great!   Well, all good things come to an end and it was time to retire my Speccy and say hello to Atari ST. It had everything, keyboard, sound, good screen resolutions and all the ports you can ever ask for. All great except for one thing: Awful Basic!! It was impossible to work with it and get any good results. What a disappointment!   There was a good basic later, but not from Atari. It was called GFA Basic and this is one of the best Basics I have ever used. I did some really big programmes in GFA Basic, one of the most ambitious was a antivirus program. I worked for over a year on that one. If it hadn't been for my work I would probably still use the ST, but reality being as it is, I had to move on.   Enter the PC in 1993, a 486/33, 8 MB RAM and a 107 Mb HD, later upgraded to 486/66 and Pentium 133 with a 850 MB drive and now Pentium 200, 48 MB RAM and 7GB HD. Awesome graphics, great sound (SB16), CD-Rom and everything. I have developed a few handy programmes for my work and I do all the statistics on it.   All in all, a very useful tool. Yes, that is what this great thing has become. From something fun and inventive and full time hobby it has turned into just another tool and part time hobby. And I run 8 bit emulators on it! It's sad in a way.....   | Home | Me | Links | Mail | Mailform | Sign Guest book | View Guest book |
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