Some Personal Computing History

I did say this was with respect to Apple and PCs. Richard had exposed me to computers when I was around 4 or 5, though I didn't "own" one until I had gotten that TRS-80 model MC-10. I don't recall getting that computer until we lived on Dee Street, so that was more like when I was 10.

The computer was more like a distant cousin to the TRS-80 which had cartridges and had different cassette tapes for saving programs. I tried loading my saved programs onto a real TRS-80 at Cindy's house and the tapes didn't work. :(

But those were the days, though. Spending hours typing in basic programs from tomes such as Basic Computer Games by David Ahl on that chicklet keyboard, saving them on a tape drive, and occasionally printing things on a thermal printer. The computer originally had 4 kilobytes of RAM. I remember it being extra cool that you got me the 16k expansion for it so it had a massive 20 kilobytes of RAM. I beat the snot out of that computer.