Three years after I moved to an apartment in Mongkok, my families started throwing my old stuffs in my room -- well that's kind of sad... anyway. Tonight I saw some of those old stuffs get packed together, and that brings me the good old memory of how I fall in love with computer, learnt coding, and doing a business in Web now... 

AT Command References, actually I don't recall I have this manual -- hey still missing those days when you need to write AT commands in a script so you can dail-up convinently in Slackware :-)

This CD is actually not really "old", when I was Year 3 in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, we have organized, probably the first advocacy group on free culture in Hong Kong, namely "Intellectual Property Issues Watch". One thing we did is Rick translated the OpenCD project into Chinese, we made 3000 CD, and managed to ship it with the computers purchased in the Student Notebook Programme of CUHK.

RUNPC was one of the best Chinese Computer Magazine you can find at that time -- I guess I was addicted to it around 1998 - 1999.

 

電腦教育 (Computer Education) is definitely the most geeky computer magazine I've ever seen in Hong Kong! It was around 1995, 1996, I was still a primary school students. It features some kind of tutorial (e.g. How a 24 bit VGA card works?) or some news (New features of DOS 6.0) in every issues; and the magazine is always full of codes (mostly in QBasic, Turbo C and Pascal). From something as simple as how to list the directory, as academic as very simple characters recognition, or as crazy as a well developed Chinese Chess Game!

Students soaked in these kind of magazines are meant to be good developers (hehe), I might not understand all of it when I was a primary school students, but I do remember I learnt a lot from these articles...

I got this box of C++ Builder 4 when I need it for one of my earliest freelance project -- I built a simple CRM software with it. I remember it cost ~ HKD 4k, sometimes even I can't really imagine the price of freelance work was so good (compare with today...) in some sense I'm just repeating myself -- at Oursky we are planning to build another CRM product now... sigh.

Hmmm, I feel really old now :-)