Ho iniziato un breve corso presso un Istituto Professionale Lecce and since it always starts from the history of computing, I came back the urge to take a dip in the past. I was reminded of the early '80s when the personal computer (PC launched by IBM) was a pipe dream for us kids to school or so. There was a drawing almost religious sect, who was crossing the difficulties of the Commodore VIC 20, C64, etc. ... before coming to a compatible PC, my baptism was an Olivetti PC1 Prodest in 1989 (1,000,000 paid to Lire). Yes, sometimes I thought back to those times when the computer was really a passion and achieve small successes also cost enormous sacrifices, there was a natural selection ... While surfing I found this site, very nice Italian Computermuseum that the name suggests that it is a museum of the PC. What to say to me is moving to revise the image of the magazines of the time, the technical specifications, the characters that have made the history of ICT. Ok I recover ...
All this has a name, Retrocomputing and sooner or later, those who love the computer can not help but think about the origins. As the hardware without software is like a body without a soul, forgive this digression poetic ;-), I thought I'd go looking for something on the DOS, the old friend black screen with the prompt C:> . Well I found an interesting site Father's DOS the brilliant but unfortunate Tim Paterson (pictured) which is a very interesting history of DOS I took the liberty of translating into Italian. Mind you, just an almost literal translation, but it makes it a good idea of \u200b\u200bhow things really went. Nothing new if you've seen the beautiful film The Pirates of Silicon Valley of 1999 hours is practically unavailable in VHS to DVD (but if you have a look on p2p ...), but very nice as to tell the grandchildren! History of DOS Translation: ".. but how do you upload a file?"
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