The first computer I worked with was a large main frame at our university - batch processed. We were given 20 seconds of user time for each problem we had to solve for our class in learning Fortran IV.
The first computer I actually owned was an Apple ][e in 1982. Eventually had a dot-matrix Apple Printer, two disk drives, a CPM card, and a memory expansion card on which I was able to afford an extra 128K of memory. Computer User Groups were quite the thing to belong to back then just to learn how to do simple things just beyond loading AppleWriter as well as starting to learn about the ARPANET AND DARPANET.
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