We had a Commodore 64 back in the day. People today probably think "Oh, 64 gigabytes, or maybe 64 megabytes?" Nooooo...64 kilobytes :) It was stolen in a house break-in in the late 80's, and at the time, I thought, "Well, I got a $100 for it from the insurance company (or something less, I can't remember exactly), so that's more than it was worth". I wish I had that now so I could show my kids, and eventually grandkids, what the early publicly available computers were like. I remember in grad school in the early 80's using computers that used cassette tapes for memory :)
It’s funny to be an early adopter of a new technology. Kids don’t know how things “work” as they just understand touchscreens and things happen.
I had to load my OS (MSDos) on a 3 1/2” floppy upon startup (of my new “laptop” computer. 6 pounds or so. 3 inches thick.
We remember EarthLink, Netscape, Iomega externals for “huge“ vector files (early Adobe illustrator and photoshop)
And 8-tracks and reel to reel music. And when CDs first came out and how expensive they were!
We had a Commodore 64 back in the day. People today probably think "Oh, 64 gigabytes, or maybe 64 megabytes?" Nooooo...64 kilobytes :) It was stolen in a house break-in in the late 80's, and at the time, I thought, "Well, I got a $100 for it from the insurance company (or something less, I can't remember exactly), so that's more than it was worth". I wish I had that now so I could show my kids, and eventually grandkids, what the early publicly available computers were like. I remember in grad school in the early 80's using computers that used cassette tapes for memory :)
There is always eBay!
Commodore 64
So I could have waited 35 years and gotten double what I got in insurance :) (looks like a lot of people kept those around)