Author: Micah Bly

I was first exposed to computers when I was nine years old, and my brother acquired a Timex-Sinclair 1000. Typing, on the TV... Amazing! Perhaps that's giving the little black door jamb too much credit, because no one ever typed on that membrane keyboard. But still: making stuff appear on TV = magic! We got a C-64 some time after that, and the rest is history. If you go to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, they have a display up right now with an 80s arcade, a kid's room (with wood paneling, of course), and a classroom equipped with Apple IIs. My room wasn't that cool, my school's computer lab wasn't that well lit, and the arcades didn't give out free quarters, but other than that, that's basically a snapshot of my early life. I work in IT, and program 8 bits for fun. (Thanks Commodore!)