I’ve been reminiscing about the first computer I had.  It was a Commodore 16, the little brother to the Commodore 64, and I fondly remember playing “Squirm”, a Snake-like game.  It’s amazing to think a machine with just 16KB of RAM fascinated me so much.  I think I was only about 6 or 7 years old at the time, but the in-built BASIC interpreter served as my first introduction into programming.

Over the years we bought many machines: a Commodore 64, several Spectrum +2’s and finally a Commodore Amiga 1200.  The latter caused me to have many arguments with my PC and Atari-ST loving peers, convinced that their machine was the best.  To me, the Amiga 1200 was a great machine, only let down by poor marketing and an even poorer manual (it covered the basics only!)

I’m firmly a PC fan now, but that’s grown more out of circumstances than choice.  Who knows - this time next year I could be writing something similar on an Apple or even something more exotic!

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