{"id":52,"date":"2023-11-14T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2023-11-14T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:45:08","slug":"about-harri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"About Harri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My computer experience started it with the famous Apple II computer. I am still thankful to my father for being so progressive and willing to invest into such a machine at a time where nobody else around us owned a personal computer. And I am still thankful to my uncle for providing the machine to us. With the wisest choice ever: he did not hand over computer games until Christmas. Instead, all the floppy disks we owned for several months had software like VisiCalc, a word processor, and the like on them. No chance to get distracted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first contact with this computer? Very embarassing in hindsight. But note that this was really the first contact with a computer (other than a programmable calculator). At most, I had seen magazine ad showing a dad and his son happily playing Donkey Kong on an Atari. So when the computer booted and showed its prompt, not knowing what to do with such a device, I naively typed in my name and watched out what the machine would answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>> Harri Porten\nSyntax error.<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So my name translated to computer language is &#8220;Syntax error&#8221;. Great discovery! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My computer experience started it with the famous Apple II computer. I am still thankful to my father for being so progressive and willing to invest into such a machine at a time where nobody else around us owned a personal computer. And I am still thankful to my uncle for providing the machine to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogtales.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}