Month: March 2021

As an influence from friends, again, I got to use a PC Compatible [at the time, they were still referred as “Compatibles” because IBM was still building and selling PCs]. This one, in particular, was a Tandy 1000 x386 model. I didn’t have a CD-ROM but it had dual 5.25” floppy drives. I don’t think…

I saw the Apple //c at a local computer store (remember those…). It was down the strip mall from the Food World where my mom shopped. I went shopping with my mom partly so I could goto the computer store. I got the promo materials for the //c and took them home. Apple //c –…

Sometime in the early 80’s, I got my first computer for Christmas. Our friends, the Williams, had one and it was so cool. That computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer. It was so amazing that it could do so much stuff, I mean play games. I don’t have any fancy pictures if it,…