Kostas KarolemeasBeginnings
Before products, teams, platforms, and AI systems, there were two Philips computers, game cartridges, BASIC listings, and the first feeling that a machine could become a place for imagination.
It began in 1983, when I was in the fourth grade of elementary school. I was playing games at first. Then I discovered that you could write instructions and make the computer answer back.
Around 1983
This was the first machine that made the screen feel like a place I could enter. I started with games, in the fourth grade of elementary school, and then found the strange extra door hidden inside it: Cartridge 9, which made it possible to write code in machine code and assembly.
The next step
The P2000T felt like an upgrade from playing with the machine to talking to it. Microsoft BASIC gave me a clearer language for making things happen, while machine code was still close enough to remind me that software had a physical edge: memory, addresses, timing, and the stubborn beauty of exact instructions.
What stayed
The Videopac was the beginning because it mixed play and possibility. Games made the computer approachable, but Cartridge 9 changed the relationship. Suddenly the machine was not only a toy. It was something I could question, instruct, and slowly understand.
The P2000T made that feeling bigger. BASIC gave the ideas names, loops, variables, and structure. Machine code kept me close to the underlying reality. That combination shaped the way I still like to build: close enough to the machine to respect the details, but always looking for the product, the experience, and the person on the other side of the screen.
From then to now
The tools changed from cartridges and BASIC to visual computing, web platforms, and agentic AI. The original question stayed the same: what can this machine help people make, understand, or do better?
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