Tetrogrammaton

I was given a computer.

The original one was called a TRS 80.

It was a Radio Shack computer by my father who I didn't live with and he had a business.

And I think the business had gone defunct and he sent me the computer.

And back then, it was,

computers were kind of mysterious and there wasn't, of course, this was in like

1982 or something. There was no real internet. There were very little information about it.

Actually, my older brother would go to school and he would come back and like learn a few

programming commands and then he would tell me about them

and then I would sort of start playing around with it and to me it was this sort of mysterious thing

I became obsessed I spent age 10 to 23 or something probably programming computers seven hours a day

or something including professionally for a brief period of time, pretty similar,

probably to a lot of people who are in the tech industry of just sort of falling in love

with the process of programming. I think it's, to me, it's sort of misunderstood and that it's a very

creative activity. So you kind of, like, I was making games and other kinds of fun things, but it's

like you just, you come up with an idea and then you think about how you're going to architect that and how you're going to build that.

And there was this little kind of additional mysterious aspect to it of like,

how does this machine work?

And the machines back then were much simpler.

Obviously, they've gotten much more complex, but like a computer today has just massive amounts

of memory and compute.

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