The first PC I ever had access to was a Tandy TRS80 that our engineering firm bought. It had a 2.1Mhz 8 bit CPU, 2x87MB floppy drives and 32k of useable RAM after the Basic Interpreter was loaded. Very exciting!! There wasn't really any engineering software around in those days (or much else) so a few of us jumped in and started writing our own. Great fun! I quickly moved on to my most serious project - exploiting this vast computing power to improve my chances of predicting next week's Lotto numbers. However despite a valiant effort, I eventually had to admit that the complex multi-variable algorithm I developed after exhaustive analysis of previous winning results wasn't quite up to scratch. Sadly, I had no alternative but to keep working.
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