Anyone else a computer person here?

[TJC]

Wow, some memories for me! I got involved with PC’s in the mid 1980’s. I use to build them on my dining room table for resale. This is before Gateway and Dell were around. So a typical system was an 8080 processor with 512 memory and a 10 megabyte hard drive! Windows 3.1 and mostly MS-DOS commands to set it up. I would resale these for $2400 each. Parts cost me about $450. (That’s how I got my down payment for my first house with interest rates at 18%!)

So hooked up with this company that was the first in the country for digital medical records and insurance approvals. I couldn’t build these things fast enough.

During this time Boston was also the first in the country to setup a dialup modem bank. It was called Citynet and was really just a big chat room. Later they added mailboxes! Woohoo!! Anyways, we all decided to meet in person after a year of online chatting and have a picnic on Boston Common weekend day. That’s when I met the girl that was also working for the company I was selling computers to.

Well, we’re not sure but we may be the first marriage to happen from an online meeting. This would be pre WWW days.

Games! Yup got a box of old ones that we use to use. Really basic 8 bit graphics and basic dialogues.

To this day I still build my own. My oldest boy got the bug and is now a programmer with masters in Computer science and another in Mathematics. He builds his own too!

You made me smile! i esp liked the Command and Conquer series of games.

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