Re:What was the first venture you tried? Tell your story.
by chmike on Friday April 13, 2007 @05:41AM
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When I was 8year old, I collected empty glass bottles in public trashes and earned some money when bringing them back to sellers. The trick is to find a good spot to find these bottles. I guess this could work today with pieces of furniture one can restore. Sorry to be out of topic, it's not IT ;)
When I was older I couldn't afford to buy a computer. So I built one my self. A friend who was EE made the plans and I also follow his directoves. It never went into a venture because the video output was not good and stable enough, but some worked well. It was a nice experience though.
Later got an Oric atmos. I wrote a disassembler and disassembled the whole OS, disk controler and basic interpreter. I then wrote a symbolic assembler that could call functions of the OS I digged out. This all done with peek&poke. Then came the Mac+, the PC, Linux, etc.
When I was older I couldn't afford to buy a computer. So I built one my self. A friend who was EE made the plans and I also follow his directoves. It never went into a venture because the video output was not good and stable enough, but some worked well. It was a nice experience though.
Later got an Oric atmos. I wrote a disassembler and disassembled the whole OS, disk controler and basic interpreter. I then wrote a symbolic assembler that could call functions of the OS I digged out. This all done with peek&poke. Then came the Mac+, the PC, Linux, etc.