Memories

Whenever I tell this story to anyone, absolutely everyone says it's interesting.

Some folks think that EMS memory existed only on 386 and higher.

Heh, if to recall the very first jobs, it was quite far from computers, it was hoeing and harvest. So, agriculture. And only seasonal.

I beat Chessmaster once. Only once in all my life!

We played a classic Roman opening. I knew the book, he of course knew the book, the beginning went all by the book.

Those there the 80s. The age of mainframes here in Chisinau. They were soviet clones of IBM 360/370, at least those where my parents worked.

Back in 1992, while being in college, I was asked to write a program that would output numerals in words, in Romanian.