My acquaintance with computers began when I was five years old. My older brother was taken up with the latest information technologies and brought me into the computer world. When Alexander was studying in school he and my father made something similar to the computer. It was ZX Spectrum system. It was necessary to connect it to the TV-set. Comparing it with recent operating systems and hardware our model was pretty primitive and inconvenient. By the way this computer was very slow. It was necessary to copy programs from magnetic tape into RAM to use it.
Assuredly I was very interested and concerned about this wonderful device that gave the opportunity to play video games, draw and tape texts. I was eager to use the computer. Unfortunately my wishes often were the same with wishes of other members of our family and I had to share the computer with them.…
