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In 1985 at the age of 10 I received my first computer as a gift: the Commodore C16, I remember that it was not as easy to find games for it as it was for the Vic-20 or ZX Spectrum produced by Sinclair or the legendary Commodore C64, so after having desired a Home Computer so much the only thing left for me to do was read the Basic manual that was in the package, reading and testing I had written several simple programs, until I developed a small CAD capable of drawing lines and circles on the screen.

Finally in 1990, following the national lottery statistics on teletext, I played some numbers and won a sum that allowed me to buy my first Personal Computer, it was a 486DX at 33MHz with 4Mb of RAM and 80Mb of very noisly Hard Disk, it was a great PC at that time. So I start to bought from UK books by Hoepli and McGraw Hill, starting to study the architecture of x86 and his logic, so I studying programming in ANSI C. I also subscribed to a computer magazine published by Infomedia, its name was Computer Programming, of which I have jealously preserved all pubblications!

My first C compiler was Turbo C++ Version 1.00 by Borland international, I developed several programs under MS-DOS 3.3 up to 6.22, below some apps that I remember right now:

Label printer, for tape musicassette, VHS and CD
Worksheet manager for Antenna Installator Company
Parser that extracted and printing addresses of companies reports downloaded from BBS
Some other code for own purpose

Than in 1994 in order to develop 32-bit apps for AutoCAD 12 in protect-mode (EXP), I was buying Watcom C/C++ 10.0 Compiler, I coding up to 1997, than my life was changed growing up as 3D CAD Designer and more and more, but this is another story...

Finally today I coding only for fun!