Originally posted by gaweidert I remember bubble memory. At one time I even knew a little assembly language programming. My first home computer was a TRS-80 Model 4 with two 5 1/4" floppy drives and 64K of RAM. It cost me over $2,000. Sitting next to it in the store was a box about the size of the original IBM PC. It was a 5 megabyte hard drive! It cost $2,300. I passed on it but thought: WOW! Infinite memory!
Ooh, I think the first computer I tried my hand on was a 4p which my father brought home from work. Our first computer at home, though, was a Commodore 64 - with a floppy station, no less! The floppy drive was equipped with the same 1MHz processor as the C64 itself. And cost about same, as well.
Next step was a $1,500 second hand XT with a 10 MB hard drive. Got it maxed out with 640KB of memory, too.
Yeah, I suppose I'm an old fart, too