User talk:Jackmanger

My name is Jack Manger and this is my space.
Jack Manger is a retired telecommunications engineer. My work consisted of evaluating telecommunications needs in specific geographical areas and deciding when, where and how the facilities necessary to provide for thoose needs would be met. This consisted of approximately 50% field work and 50% computer work. I loved my job. In Christmas 1979 my Dad gave my brother and I each a Times Sinclair computer and it was love at first sight. I had always had an interest in things mechanical and mysterious and the computer filled the bill on all counts. It was introduced in the United States in 1978 at a price of $99.99. 600,000 were sold in 6 months. It weighed 12 ounces, Random Access Memory was 2 kilobytes, Read Only Memory was 8 kilobytes, the graphics were 64x44 B&W, display was a TV set, storage was a tape cassette. This is the first computer I owned and I could make a .....clock with it. I forgot girls, sports, schoolwork, and anything else that interfered with my computer.