Seinäjoki, Finland was a tough place to be a budding geek back in 1985. Just ask Eero Tunkelo, a grade school student with a doctor for a father, a mother who taught sewing and textile design, and a newfound love for computers and programming.
“Computers were new, so anything you did, it was—wow!” he told me during a recent phone call. Such was Tunkelo’s passion for the technology that he spent an entire summer working so that he could purchase his own Commodore VIC-20—an early home-oriented machine that ran Commodore BASIC 2.0 and predated the more advanced Commodore 64.
With his VIC-20, Tunkelo taught himself BASIC, then studied assembly language. He wrote programs that ran “straight to the metal,” as he put it, but also came from the heart. One included graphics that celebrated his sister’s high school graduation. But the young innovator felt isolated. “Computers were not as popular as they are now,” Tunkelo said, and few schools had one.
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