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Old 03-18-2010, 10:44 PM   #17
Juniper
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Atari video game. I think mine pre-dated the famous Atari 64. I still have it, with a box full of games, and it still works.

In 1978 (I think) I took a summer school class at a neighboring district (ours certainly didn't have such things) to learn Basic on an Apple IIc.

In 1979 (I think) my parents bought me an Apple IIe. I used it all the way up through 1992 as a glorified word processor. I remember that it actually had an amazingly good printer for its time! What technology was that? Not dot-matrix, something else. A very early inkjet maybe. Of course that was before WYSIWYG, so getting the word processor to do anything like subscripts, bold, italic, double-space, etc. was a tricky business requiring special codes and a cheat sheet.

Of course it also had such great games to play on its creamed-spinach screen as Space Quarks and Lemonade! What fun! I also had a text-based game of Hitchhiker's Guide. I never got very far. I got on the Vogon ship and kept getting killed by bad poetry.

Mom bought herself a 286 sometime circa 1988 or so. My favorite game: Leisure Suit Larry. Remember him? I inherited that computer in 93 when they got a new 386. By then it had been upgraded to have 5K RAM and a whompin' 20 MB hard drive!

My hubby's first computer was a Timex Sinclair. He still has it, too.
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