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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The Commodore 128
128 kilobytes of random access memory, central processing unit clocked at 2 megahertz
but very little software was ever written to take advantage of all of this, because the 128 had a compatibility mode for the much more popular Commodore 64, using only 64 kilobytes at 1 megahertz.
This machine made it easy for you to read/write the contents of arbitrary bytes of memory, which is sadly generally frowned upon and discouraged by today's cuckputers. Also had a sweet synth chip
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