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I love computing, and hate "information technology". If you do not know the difference, you are probably just working for some "IT" company, not "computing" in any real sense of the word. In other words, I dig real-time programming, bit operations, assembly code, I/O port programming, Interrupt Handlers etc. and hate databases, SQL, Java. GUIs, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Windows, Banking applications etc. You get the idea. My personal favorite effort in programming is when I implemented a Pattern Recognition algorithm invented by researchers in Image Processing in my University, subsequently published as a paper in the journal "Pattern Recognition Letters", Volume 16, Issue 1 (1995), pages 49-58: "A FAST ALGORITHM FOR SEQUENTIAL MACHINES TO COMPUTE PATTERN SPECTRUM VIA CHESS-BOARD DISTANCE TRANSFORM" by P.Ghosh and B.Chanda. A PDF version of the paper can be found here ».
You can Play ZX Spectrum Games Free Online Here » I wrote a bunch of games on this machine, and got a taste of assembly language programming on the Zilog Z80 CPU. The ZX Spectrum was my primary computer till 1992, when I assembled a PC AT 286 from components gathered from grey-market operators. I have since built many PCs of various configurations.
I sporadically document my adventures in computing in my blog Supratim Sanyal's Computing Blog | Wandering Digital Wastelands as a Geek. Here is my list of computing heroes:
Here is a series of wonderful videos that chronicle the years of ZX Spectrum excitement: 1982: |
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