He invested two months of his salary believing to bring home an ultra-modern mix between his old Olivetti type writer and a powerful calculator to make his job easier, increasing his productivity. It all started when I was only 8 and my father bought his first computer consisting in a chunky gray keyboard named Commodore 64, with a few peripherals: a green monochrome monitor, a tape device, a floppy disk drive and a very noisy dot matrix printer. However for a few of us it meant dreaming about becoming superstars creating (or hacking) video-games! This for many of the kids of my generations meant a shift in the way they entertained themselves. I have been lucky enough to be able to witness a few incredible revolutions: the advent of the internet is a massive one (can you imagine a world without it? That was the reality in which all the following events happened), but before this there has been another big one: the moment when computers entered the households.
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