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”
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February 23rd, 2006 at 11:15 am
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!
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:51 am
I work on one every day, but it still intimidates me! Sometimes I groan “oonlwi.”
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:59 am
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.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:34 pm
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!
February 23rd, 2006 at 1:05 pm
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.
February 23rd, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Cecil, are you still laboring under the impression that Mac’s are cool?
That makes me want to ykyqbtzw.
February 23rd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Steve - I’ve seen into the “Gateway of Windows” which helped me to swear off (except when attempting to use a Mac) Macs.
February 23rd, 2006 at 8:25 pm
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?
February 24th, 2006 at 9:05 am
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!