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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.<br>
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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. :)<br>
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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. <br>
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David Merchant<br>
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I think I have legit purchased copy of this in my collection :)
The section on ASCII art is great.<br>
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<div>I stumbled across this last night and found it a bit
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