What kind of home computer did you and your family use? How powerful was it? What kind of programs did you run?
My family's first computer was an Amiga 500. I used to play Capone and F/A-18 Interceptor on it. My parents never used it for work.
It had a 7MHz CPU, 512kb of RAM, and no hard disk. Every program had to be loaded from a floppy disk.
It ran on a proprietary operating system called AmigaOS, also loaded from a floppy disk each time.
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I got an IBM PC/XT (5160) when I started high school in 1983. It cost an absolutely obscene amount of money, something like $5,000 (~$15,000 today). My father had said he'd match however much I was able to put together, and I think he expected me to get the significantly cheaper 5150. In hindsight, he was right. The differences weren't actually worth the price. But I was a kid, and the XT was new and shiny, so that's what I bought.
That said, scrimping, saving, and hustling to be able to afford it really taught me the value of a dollar. I probably wouldn't have been nearly as successful as an adult if I hadn't put that work in as a child. So I guess it all worked out. Plus, my friends were super jealous.
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Lol old !zoomers
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