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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
The closest thing to a new electronics I had then was my 'Robbie the Robot' toy... No... wait... I had one of the very first 'portable radios.' A transistor radio the size of a large hardback book.
I got my first 'computer' when I was about 28. It was a "Vic 20," twenty K of memory and connected to my TV. It used cartridge style games, had a monochrome display, and played text-only games. I could program Basic scripts to change the color of the display, convert temperatures from F to C, but had no storage ability.
I didn't have a 'real' computer until I was 36, and in Grad School. It was an IBM with a 200M hard drive running Dos. Programs had cardboard templates that fit over the Function keys for special commands such as 'bold,' 'underline,' 'indent,' etc.
I spent a lot more time face to face with people back in those days.
Stitchawl
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I had a VIC-20 as well. But your memory must be corrupted -- the VIC-20 came with 5K ram, of which about 3K was available to the user.
Amazing what I was able to accomplish with Basic, a couple of KBs, and a cassette recorder.