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My mom and dad went a bit nuts and we got an Apple IIc with a 13" color monitor. I still have it and the boxes discs and manuals and everything...to my wife's ongoing chagrin.
I even still have the bag in this ad. I used to use it to keep my Star Wars toys in, and when I got older I filled it with cassette tapes for my Walkman:
The next family computer was a non-descript windows thing. I never used it. My next computer was a Mac Performa which I got used LOOONG after it was a current machine, but I learned a lot of Adobe fundamentals on it and moved onto more current computers pretty quickly.
Me, too!! Or more accurately, it was my Dad's. We used the living room TV for a monitor and had a tape recorder for storage. He followed it up with a TRS-80 Model 4.
The first one I paid for with my own money was a Tandy 1000SX. I had some really fun (for the time) games for that one.
Atari 2600 with the Atari Basic cart
then a TI 99/4a. I recall programming all sorts of things on the TI; but man was that cassette tape storage a pain to use.
Didn't get a computer until the mid 90s. I think it was an HP. Ugh, I'm getting AOL dial up flashbacks.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
We were always too poor to afford a computer when I was living at home. I used a few at school in junior high, and some friends during high school, and I had to utilize the computer labs at university to do any work with the computer. When I was in grad school I scraped enough money together to buy a used Mac to be able to work on my master's thesis. My second computer circa 2000 was a laptop I got when ESPN donated some of their used computers to the high school I was teaching for at the at the time, and some of the faculty got them to use in integrating tech into the classroom. I bought my first new computer a year or so later.
-M
"Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato
My first was a Packard Bell from Sears back in the late 1990's, and expensive as heck compared to today's prices....Do they even make Packard Bell anymore...lol.....
I don't remember what my second one was now....But my computers of choice today are HP's....
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