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Originally posted by Kamog:
The first computer I ever used was a Commodore pet. It had a small green monochrome screen and a tape drive. It took forever to load programs from the tape, but it was so cool! It came with some simple programs for word processing and math and so on, and it had a few cool games: Space Invaders, a racing game, a labyrinth monster game, and a mining game. You could write your own BASIC programs in it, too, but back then I didn't know how to program. (Much later, I first learned how to program in BASIC on the Apple IIE.)

My first computer was the Apple II+, purchased in the spring of 1981...yes 1981!

No drives at all, you saved your "stuff" to a common tape on tape recorder and loaded it from the tape recoder.

The keyboard only typed in capitals.

IIRC, it came in 16K, 32K and 48K memory. I splurged big time for the 48K. And later, I did an upgrade to 64K.

I made so many modifications to it, that it took years before I bought my first Macintosh.

And the original cost was more than the price of most personal computers today!

But it was a marvel! I too learned to program in "Applesoft basic" which is a modified form of Basic.

I also did some machine language programming. It was all done directly and by hand without any of the aids which are available today.