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Today’s post will confirm, of all things, my age.
My first computer was made by Texas Instruments and lovingly known as the TI-99/4A. Even the name had that futuristic appeal.
My parents bought a couple of these (or were given a couple of these) while I was in high school and thus we entered the computer age. I spent hours and hours on my beloved TI-99/4A programing songs. I wrote page after page of script to get the machine to play (in four part harmony I might add) songs such as “The Lord Bless and You and Keep You” and “Fairest Lord Jesus.” Nothing like that seven-fold amen coming from the TI-99/4A!
It wouldn’t be until I was out of college that I purchased my first computer. And yes I paid way too much for the IBM clone – but it had dual 5 and 1/4 floppy drives!
Growing up I never imagined a life with computers. Now I can’t imagine my life without computers. I work on a computer at work and at home. I have a laptop computer for the road and a PDA.
My Palm T3 (I seem to like having the letter T in my computer name) has 64MB of installed ram compared to the 16K of that old TI-99/4A!
I look forward, with great anticipation, to see what’s down the road on the silicone super-highway!
Come on, sing with me, if you dare . . . “Yes I love technology – But not as much as you, you see – But I still love technology – Always and forever”
My first was an Amstrad. On sale at Sears for $400. Only after I purchased it did I realize the operating system was in the floppy disks, and it only used Amstrad floppy disks that held almost no data and were very expensive. Then we got a computer bank loan to buy a Mac Classic with 8mb of hard drive. We thought we’d never find use for that much memory!
We’ve come a long way, baby!
I work on one every day, but it still intimidates me! Sometimes I groan “oonlwi.”
We had a Radio Shack TRS-80 at school. There were no disk drives, just a casette player. The graphics were incredible…the X-Wing fighter on the Star Wars game was represented by an “X”. We all called it the Trash-80.
In high school we moved on to a Wang. No comment.
My first purchase was an IBM with a 20 meg hard drive that cost $2000. Yeah. Good purchase there. My iPod’s drive is 40 Gigs. Wild.
I was Mac before Mac was cool back in 1980-something. Seems like the model was a LC 520?
Now when I try to work on the Mac’s that we have at church I have to control myself or I’ll left slip a gojtzzjk here or a gojtzzjk there.
Go ahead and add a nqfrpnlz thanks to the wv!
I’m just an unfrozen caveman lawyer. I know nothing of these modern-day letter-numbers or the futuristic machines you speak of. Your ways seem strange and frightening to me.
Cecil, are you still laboring under the impression that Mac’s are cool?
That makes me want to ykyqbtzw.
Steve – I’ve seen into the “Gateway of Windows” which helped me to swear off (except when attempting to use a Mac) Macs.
Sorry, guys, but I’d take a Mac over PC anytime. Just never could afford a Mac / software over a PC package.
Have you tried the woqys operating system?
I think about the technology too with video games. I remember having my Intellivision and Atari and now I have a (my son has a) Sony Playstation 2. It will soon take a back seat to Playstation 3 and has already seen the Xbox 360.
It is enough to make a gklefsof out of all of us!