The first one I had in my house was a TI-99A. I bought that back in 1982, had it connected to an old black and white tv and used a casette tape recorder for storage. You could buy solid state cartridges to plug into the thing, mostly for games.
I started working on computers that were sold to busnesses in 1973. Memories of what size some of those mid range computers were and the capacities of the memory and hard drives are amazing. Suffice it to say your iphone far exceeds anything we developed for companies back in those days and they were huge and very expensive. I have been in development of hardware and software since 1973 and the advances in technology during that time are just incredible in all aspects. Three more years and i will retire and move to the Villages and the only hard drives i will be talking about will be on the golf course...I just can't wait !!
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