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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 Mattel Aquarius, with a whopping 4096 bytes of RAM. I think my grandmother got it for free when it was discontinued.
Later we got a Tandy 1000...TX, maybe? I don't remember the exact model, but it had an 8 MHz 286 CPU and 640k RAM. Computers were expensive back then, so we held onto that one for like six years before upgrading.
This was before computers had learned to stand up. Rather than a tower, it had what was called a "desktop" form factor. It was about the same size as a tower, but it laid flat on the desk, and it could be used as a monitor stand.
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