40 years ago, I got my first home Desktop computer.
An IBM AT.
I still have it in the garage.
Time to pull it out and video record a demo for the "kids" and play some Flight Simulator, maybe make a "Newspaper" with the newspaper publishing software, etc.
What I think is funny is, on the day of the greatest importance / significance in the history of my life, to date, the dissolution of the USSR, what I remember is the stress of teaching an old gruffy WW2 trench general how to open a folder on Windows with a mouse
One of my first memories of school was in kindergarten and doing an under-the-desk USSR attack nuke drill that first week of school. So, the USSR was imbedded in my psyche
The old mil guard *hated new tech b/c it wasn't "traditional." Dad never used a PC even though he'd operated a "computer" at a reactor. Used a slide rule and typewriter. Not sure he grasped the concept of a personal computer.
When did "single-click" become available? Figure I've saved a billion clicks that way. x
2/ I would spend hours copying BASIC scripts from magazines and then days finding an errant typo to get it to work.
I had no hard drive at first.
It cost over $5000 (14K now) from the IBM store (near Tri-County Mall, Cincinnati, Ohio)
I used part of a court settlement from being hit by a car in 1978 when I was 8 to buy it.
I remember going into the savings and loan with my grandmother to get the money. At like 14, I felt big having a wad of cash, and even bigger, spending it at the IBM store
Very business-like stores. I think they were called IBM Product Centers.
When Apple opened their stores, and the world thought it was revolutionary, I kind of chuckled because I had been to a sterile computer device store in my GENX yesteryears. lol.
(And, yes, they wore white coats like doctors in a hospital.)😂
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