23 Feb 06 114070632771584235

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”