I ❤ my Mac. I really do.
I’ve been a geeky computer user since the age of 6. My first computer was a Commodore CBM. It used BASIC as a language, had no hard drive and was completely text based, with a monotone green screen. If you wanted to play a game on it, you had to enter the programme line by line. You used to get books with prewritten programmes that you would just copy line by line in. Some games were simple. it only had 1 A4 sized page of programming lines. Others were more complex, and had 10. The crappy bit was that after spending days entering the programme data, you’d play the game and either discover the programme was faulty or that the game was crappy. Mostly the game was crappy.
A few years later, when my cousin was getting married and needed extra money, my dad bought his computer over from him. It was a quantum leap in computing, an XT, with 20meg Hard Disk, a CGA monitor, and 640kb of memory. It was The screen showed 16 colours, it ran MS-DOS. Wow. this thing was the shit.
Then 286, 386, 486, Pentium I, G3 Mac Pentium II, Viao P3, G4 Quicksilver Mac, each one was a masterpiece of computing power in its time.
Now, I use a macbook, but the sobering thought is that in 2 years it will be redundant too.
Is this what happens to people? Do people become redundant in this way? Will we oneday be nothing better than doorstoppers? Or will we leave a lasting legacy? I guess the choice is yours. Create your legacy the way you want to. Be the person you want to be remembered for.
Or you could be like Capt. Jack Sparrow and take what you can, and give nothing back.
Cool post… I also remember the Commodore 64.
Gosh, I realise that must make me sound so old!
Gosh Nielfa, not the Commodore 64. A CBM
We had horrible computers back in the day.
My father only changed in 1999/2000 to a newer system in his business but before that he still had to type the input line to get to a program.
I remember wanting to throw that computer away at that time.
I remember playing games like Commander Keen. I actually still like Commander Keen. Lol.
I remember typing up an assignment for school when I was around 8.
That had to be the most torturous assignment of my life, simply because of the typing.