Let’s start with a little story.
I was at a family members house, someone was making me a Nespresso coffee, we were talking about it for not even a minute, coffee was made, consumed and all done and dusted so to speak (while this took place my phone was off and in my pocket)
Now a few hours later I was on Instagram scrolling down my feed and I saw a Nespresso advert, I thought it displayed adverts based on my browser history, search etc, now the thing is I have never ever searched for anything coffee related, I didn’t think much of it until this happened again with a completely different item that I have never searched for but I have spoken about…
I am not going to go into it but to me this is going way to far
Search for something along the lines of “Instagram adverts based on what I have spoken about” and plenty of things come up.
I remember my first computer very well as it followed me around for many years, The SEGA SC-3000 Computer (right click link and choose open in new tab) was released by SEGA in Japan in 1983
This system used cartridge’s and could be plugged into a cassette deck via a 3.5mm headphone jack at a certain level to read the software from the cassette.
“SEGA SC-3000 is mainly based on the hardware of SEGA SG-1000 console, all the games cartridges can be used in both systems. There are some cartridges of SEGA MARK III that can be read by SC-3000 also (i.e. The Graphic Board GB-800). G-1015 Orguss game cartridge, these systems can only run with a ROM cartridge inserted. In these ROMS are stored all games and program applications, and at the power-on of the system all data are read and played. This computer has great features compared to its 8 bit based competitors. The different programmable chips (Video, Sound, and Peripherals) gave the user a good programming flexibility and power, especially if the machine language is used. VDP Texas Instruments MNS9929 ANL the VDP (Video Display Processor) used in many MSX systems also, offers 4 main video modes, two graphics modes and two text modes. It has many features dedicated to the sprites (32 independent sprites definition, attributes and movements), other dedicated to the background graphics. And one, unfortunately not implemented in SC-3000, let overlay another video signal coming from another VDP. The sound processor has three independent sound channels, and 2 separated noise and white sound generators. All of these channels have their independent attenuator. So it is possible to program the chip and play music. PPI NEC D8255AC, the Input/Output programmable chip let’s the user program how to read the keyboard, load and write data to the cassette tape and to the printer.”
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Ice Cream Stall was one of the better games we owned, most of them where very basic text style games with little to no coloured graphics, loading a game from cassette took ages and half the time it failed and you had to start again.
I never owned or used a Commodore 64 unfortunately, plenty of 8086, 286, 386, 486, 586, 686, Intel Pentium 1, 2, 3 and so on, AMD and Cyrix processors
The best time in computer gaming and general computing for me was from say 1995 to about 2005, computer system these days don’t get me excited or interested like they did back then (that is a story for another day)
