[ML-General] BBS The Documentary

[david]

Boy, does that bring back memories!  I jumped into the home computer 
world in 1977 and instantly became evangelistic for the concept, for 
home and businesses.  Sold my first commercial program in 1978.  Not 
even floppies were available for the Apple II at that time.

I still look back in wonder at WHY in the world did I pay $1,998 for a 5 
meg hard drive in 1981 or so, for an IBM PC.  But that is how I now make 
my living.  In '77, $1,698 for an Apple II with a whopping 48K (yes, 
kilobytes) of memory; did not include monitor or tape drive, and 
floppies were not available.  That was just for the system.  It only did 
40 characters per line back then because it was built to use normal TV's 
for monitors.  It was so funny watching the UPS guy's eyes get bigger 
and bigger as I counted out the cash to give him when the Apple was 
delivered!  Back then, $1700 was like a quarter of some people's annual 
salary.  I was hooked and hooked bad.  :)  I bet I spent I spent more on 
computer books, magazines, and software than I did for the hardware per 
year. :)

It also ruined my body but now we know more about the ergonomics. 
<sigh>  I remember reading a multi-page article about ergo in 1978 or so 
and thought yeah, these guys have great ideas.  I adopted most of them, 
but remember, that was way before mice were used.

David Merchant


On 03/20/2015 11:09 AM, Jeff Cotten wrote:
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> I think I have legit purchased copy of this in my collection :) The 
> section on ASCII art is great.
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Erik Arendall <earendall at gmail.com 
> <mailto:earendall at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I stumbled across this last night and found it a bit nostalgic. Enjoy
>
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>     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgE-9Sxs2IBVgJkY-1ZMj0tIFxsJ-vOkv
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