The first personal computers came out when I was in high school, but my dad never made a lot of money and never bought one. My first PC was a TRS-80 Model 100, which had a built-in LCD monitor, I bought that around '83 or thereabouts. I didn't buy an actual IBM PC-compatible until late '80s, I think. I remember storing tapes in my desk when I worked at the State. Actually, I remember storing floppies there: I once accidentally overwrote a file and drove in to work to retrieve my backup disks to get that file back. It was later that I bought a tape drive for backups, SO much easier! Until HD capacity eclipsed tapes and backups became so much more difficult.
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Re: PEEKs and POKEs?
Date: 2023-01-12 07:06 am (UTC)The first personal computers came out when I was in high school, but my dad never made a lot of money and never bought one. My first PC was a TRS-80 Model 100, which had a built-in LCD monitor, I bought that around '83 or thereabouts. I didn't buy an actual IBM PC-compatible until late '80s, I think. I remember storing tapes in my desk when I worked at the State. Actually, I remember storing floppies there: I once accidentally overwrote a file and drove in to work to retrieve my backup disks to get that file back. It was later that I bought a tape drive for backups, SO much easier! Until HD capacity eclipsed tapes and backups became so much more difficult.