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History, Nostalgia & Introduction
Do you remember the 1980s and the original 8 bit computer craze? If so you might find the next 3 paragraphs very interesting and it might bring back some happy memories, if not you might want to skip the next 3 paragraphs below to the last paragraph in this section which starts, [...]

In 1980 my parents decided to buy me what is now known officially as the very first mass produced home computer which was the Sinclair ZX80 for Christmas 1980 (Also see http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Sinclair-ZX80). In those days people very rarely had computers at home and even in most offices, you’d only see typewriters and files, so the [...]