Computer nostalgia  It’s Wednesday and as anticipation builds
for this evening’s episode of The Apprentice, I’m reminded of
the conversations set off by my blog about Edward Hunter. The
demise of the accountant candidate seemed to attract less
attention than the merits of Amstrad’s PCW computer (and the
even more dubious claims of 1970s Amstrad stereo systems).  I’ve
seen this before on AccountingWEB. A significant proportion of
the membership comes from that generation that cut its teeth on
BBC Micros and Sinclair ZX 80 computers and crossed seamlessly
over to PC-based accounting systems when they entered the
profession.  I grew up with computers (see below). My mother was
a computer journalist who claims to have cited one as co-
respondent in her 1968 divorce. She took me with her around
trade fairs in the 1960s and 1970s, where I played lunar landing
and ballistic plotting games powered by IBM System 36s and other
minicomputers. I followed her into the business and one of my
first articles as a journalist w