- I got my first computer: an Atari 400 computer with 16k of RAM and no storage, so I would write a program and then just turn it off. The OS and a BASIC interpreter also fit in that 16k so it wasn't hard to write a program that would be too big to fit into memory.
- The APPLE ][ was a spark of pure genius. The first time I played with it, it changed my life. I would walk a couple miles to the computer store on weekends so I could work on one. (I rememeber the Lisa and then Macintosh coming out and somehow not being impressed.)
- Software piracy was rampant. Software was sold through publishers, like books.
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About 25 to 30 years ago:
- I got my first computer: an Atari 400 computer with 16k of RAM and no storage, so I would write a program and then just turn it off. The OS and a BASIC interpreter also fit in that 16k so it wasn't hard to write a program that would be too big to fit into memory.
- The APPLE ][ was a spark of pure genius. The first time I played with it, it changed my life. I would walk a couple miles to the computer store on weekends so I could work on one. (I rememeber the Lisa and then Macintosh coming out and somehow not being impressed.)
- Software piracy was rampant. Software was sold through publishers, like books.
- Elephant memory was the cool makers of floppy disks. I had this big poster in my room: http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/ems-mag-ad-2-smal...
- My first modem was 300 baud. That was so slow, it took a second or so for each character to appear.