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Lars Wirzenius

liw.fi

I have over forty years of programming experience , over thirty of it working full time. I have code running on billions of devices, on all continents, on all oceans, in orbit, and on Mars.

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40 Years of Programming

In April, 1984, my father bought a computer for his home office, a Luxor ABC-802 , with a Z80 CPU, 64 kilobytes of RAM, a yellow-on-black screen with 80 by 25 text mode, or about 160 by 75 pixels in graphics mode, and two floppy drives. It had BASIC in its ROM, and came with absolutely no games. If I wanted to play…