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via Dev.toArt15h ago

I was born 1963 in Hamburg. At the age of 19 I got my first C64 a Computer from Commodore. One with a tape drive and later a 5 1/4 " diskette drive. So very basic. I was fascinated from this tech. Later my friend who gave a me a stack of disk every week, moved to Amiga 500... So did I. On the Amiga I first saw Deluxe Paint...a pixel tool. That was my hook, to start programming in C later and to study graphics design many years later. My first app was a sprite editor. A pixel tool. Apple Macintosh has been released about 2 years later. 1984 Someone wrote a book about that year. This is now 42 years ago. Every hitchhiker knows what this number means. Nobody knew the question behind it. I found out...at least think I do. I have decided to believe in it. Now I also decided to share my knowledge with the world. I started to write a book. I hosted at least a few chapters on my website. The rest of this book is still in one of my repos. Then I thought shall we write a book about 1984 + 42 = 2

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