Re:Ask HN: How old were you when you got your first computer?
by RiderOfGiraffes on Saturday May 09, 2009 @02:45PM
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I was 17 1/2. It was 1979, it was a TRS-80 with a whole 16KB of memory and a Z80 running at 1.77 MHz.
After two months I got fed up with how slow it was and wrote a compiler. It was written in BASIC and compiled itself. In the 16KB I fitted the BASIC source, two copies of the compiled version, and the tape saving program.
After two months I got fed up with how slow it was and wrote a compiler. It was written in BASIC and compiled itself. In the 16KB I fitted the BASIC source, two copies of the compiled version, and the tape saving program.
I think the compiler was 3810 bytes ...