Where Tech Isn't So Technical…
I haven’t really bought a PC since prior to 2006 when I bought my first Mac. I previously thought it was a MacBook, but it was a MacMini. Only after the transition to Intel processors from the PowerPC line of processors because Intel was more powerful per watt. Here is that 2006 Mac mini in…
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,…