alt escribió:¡Qué tío, Calpirro, gracias por el aviso! Le he escrito a ver qué cuenta :D
Ranjit respondió esto hace seis días:
Hi Jaime, it is for sale and I am based in xxxxxx province in Spain. I originally bought this computer in the UK in 1979. Next week, I will be putting it on eBay for sale at €500.
Y a raíz de su mensaje y de que Calpirro se interesara, he aprovechado para hacerle una pequeña entrevista. Ranjit tiene actualmente 72 años y vive en el sur de España. Le pregunto si llegó a usar el Sorcerer, y si lo compró para darle un uso profesional o quizá para jugar a los primeros juegos que se comercializaban. Le digo que es un auténtico pionero, y me responde que:
I was a programmer when I bought the Exidy and I wrote many BASIC programmes. It was great fun. Later I bought a BBC micro that was more powerful and also started to programme in machine language. Today, I am very interested in learning more about Artificial Intelligence and will soon enrol on a 6 month course on AI. It is sad that AI is being used for so many bad things today. It has the power to be very useful to the whole of mankind.
Le pregunto si le importa que publique sus respuestas aquí, y que si conserva el software que escribió, a lo que me dice:
Unfortunately, I don’t have the programs I wrote. They were all saved on cassette but I don’t know where they are now. The first programme I wrote was to keep track of my bank transactions. I had just got married in 1979 (and happy to say that I still have the same wife :-) and wanted to keep track of my finances. So the bank transactions were saved on the computer as a 2 dimensional array.
Please feel free to share any information you like with the group. We, as human beings, only learn and grow when we share and talk to each other.
Thank you very much, Ranjit, for your messages!
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