User:Dan7609

About Me
My name is Dan, and I worked on a project for TV over the past 4 or 5 years, charting the history of computers and video games. I made notes from 1970 until 1985, and each event was colour coded, and the dates triple checked where possible - to make sure everything was at least as factually correct as possible. The proviso is the whole thing was made into an editorial for each event, and this in turn was made into a small series for YouTube called Amiga - The Quantum Leap - a set of 4 shows, where I narrate my journal, along with some photos to chart the years (to avoid use of copyright footage). Lately, I noticed it wouldnt take very long to make that journal into an online list, so people all over the world could reference the same dates as I did.

I started my career in computers with exposure to a VIC-20 in my early teens, and then my own C64. By 1992 I had my first Amiga. By 1996 I had a PS1, and then a PS2, and then XBox360. I kind of lost interest after that, but I was always interested in what came first, the chicken or the egg. Sometimes the series of events amounts to piracy on the high seas - not only software and hardware, but also in the adoption of ideas, marketing principals, and literally taking over the opposition. There are no end to mergers and unions in the computer business, and Im not really interested in the tangled web of who buys who. But it would be nice to chronicle the rise and fall of our industry; an industry you are watching evolve right now on your computer.