I’m reading an interesting book at the moment entitled -The Secret Life of a Teenage Punk Rocker , and a few years ago I read a similar one about a guy in a rock band who was around at that time too , and this inspired me to put my own life story down on to a floppy disc.
The problem being it was created , I think on Win 96 , and won’t run on modern computers , which I found to my absolute horror a few days ago, and led me to search our office high and low for a machine of that spec’.
Do I work in a museum – no far from it - although I’ve got an old IBM 286 DOS
machine sat in cupboard in my office , which with its green screen is probably the stone age equivalent of modern computers :)
I was originally given this IBM years ago and literally told to fix it up to one of our electronic rigs , as the new computer age was upon us , but the problem was -
so was the enlightened era of computer gaming :)
This immediately caused a problem , in which a large portion of the minute memory capacity was now taken up by the delights of - Pacman , Defender and Space Invaders :) , and certainly not the works program it was supposed to be running.
On reflection , I think we probably spent more time getting the games to run than anything else in those days , and were constantly bailed out by a friend of mine called Mikey Ramchip , during the many conflicts and computer crashes we caused …..
……………….wooops…………….. :).
Ok enough ancient history and back to the start - both these books are excellent so if you want a flavour of life and amateur music making in the late 70’s / early 80’s England - try ‘em .
