Oh, how cool!
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kitanzi would murder me in my sleep if I started dragging junk like this into the house, but...
Steve Wozniak OK's Apple I replicas
My first computer was an Apple ][, and I adored it. I used it up until it finally gave up the ghost sometime in 1991, and replaced it with an Amiga. I didn't actually own a PC until 1994, when I began teaching computer applications and programming at a business school in Athens, GA, and found it useful to have the platform I was teaching at my home. And the whole history of computers is a fascination for me. Too cool!
(linked vialysana. Thanks!)
kitanzi would murder me in my sleep if I started dragging junk like this into the house, but...Steve Wozniak OK's Apple I replicas
My first computer was an Apple ][, and I adored it. I used it up until it finally gave up the ghost sometime in 1991, and replaced it with an Amiga. I didn't actually own a PC until 1994, when I began teaching computer applications and programming at a business school in Athens, GA, and found it useful to have the platform I was teaching at my home. And the whole history of computers is a fascination for me. Too cool!
(linked via
lysana. Thanks!)
Another old fogey!
My first hands-on experience with computers was in the late '70s/early '80s in high school. We had a DECwriter II (and acoustic coupler) in the guidance office, a TRS-80 Model II (with speech synthesizer) in the math department, and an Apple II Plus in my physics teacher's room.
I remember wanting an Apple II in the early '80s, but there was no way I could afford one. The only place that sold them was ComputerLand.
Then came college, where I was exposed to computer terminals and punch cards. The rest is history.