The Blind Giant (2012)
“I actually preferred Space Invaders; there was a classic wood-panelled box in the kebab shop at the end of my road, and if I was lucky I’d be allowed a very short go while my dad and my brother Tim picked up doner kebabs with spicy sauce for the whole family. In retrospect, they may have been the most disgusting kebabs ever made in the United Kingdom. When the weather’s cold, I miss them terribly.
I grew up in a house which used early (room-sized) dedicated word-processing machines. I knew what... a command line interface was from around the age of six (though I wouldn’t have called it that, because there was no need to differentiate it from other ways of interfacing with a computer which did not yet exist: I knew it as ‘the prompt’, because a flashing cursor prompted you to enter a command) and since my handwriting was moderate at best I learned to type fairly early on. Schools in London back then wouldn’t accept typed work from students, so until I was seventeen or so I had to type my work and then copy it out laboriously by hand.MoreLess
I grew up in a house which used early (room-sized) dedicated word-processing machines. I knew what... a command line interface was from around the age of six (though I wouldn’t have called it that, because there was no need to differentiate it from other ways of interfacing with a computer which did not yet exist: I knew it as ‘the prompt’, because a flashing cursor prompted you to enter a command) and since my handwriting was moderate at best I learned to type fairly early on. Schools in London back then wouldn’t accept typed work from students, so until I was seventeen or so I had to type my work and then copy it out laboriously by hand.MoreLess
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