Martin Coath - Computing History

Computing History

An archive

This is a bit of a random page, outside the main site menu, with just an informal history of my time working with computers.

I wrote my first ever computer program in 1976 and ran it on this:

more about this machine here.

Later there was a tiny bit of these (and other 'home computers') at various times:

I honed my skills in 6502 and Z80 machine code and in the design of digital hardware by writing ROM extensions and designing add-on boards, learning FORTH for machines including these two throughout the 80s:

more here.

Had a long relationship and learned masses about disc based operating systems with these guys from 1984 to 1994:

And nothing interesting has happened since.