The world's first personal computer for under 100.00

the 4^th of Nov; can’t believe it’s almost Thanksgiving and Christmas. What’s on my mind? I got a new MacBook Air and finally got the computer to recognize the hard drive. I finally found the setting to change the font size on my laptop. It’s incredible what that computer can do. When I first received the laptop, I transferred my old data from my 15-year-old Mac to the new MacBook Air. The computer didn’t like that, and I had to delete the system, then reload the operating system and data into the system. I took my data from my newer desktop.

Then, clean your new computer and remove old files and junk. Also, I cleaned my desktop, which I should have done at the beginning

Our 1980 personal computer was a Timex 1000, which cost less than 100 dollars. The Timex was advertised as the first personal computer under $100.00.

Our second computer was a 1982 Commodore 64, at $ 600.00. We used this for a business. Our first gaming computer was a 1978 Atari 400, about the same price. The games were running over $80.00. 

After the Atari, we went (PC to the tune of five computers). My first PC was a Hewlett-Packard desktop, a Pavilion. The HP was so slow; I would wait 2 minutes for it to come up. It also had a dial-up modem, and it took 5 minutes to connect to the internet. This HP, the Pavilion, was when I started losing my hair.

That's when I bought 

Our first Apple computer, a 1990 classic, was for $1,000.

Our next computer was a PowerBook 100, which we bought for our son in college; he paid for most of it.

Next was a 1994 Power Macintosh. With this computer, all the neighborhood kids came to do their homework and so on. And it was funny; they told my son that they were wealthy, ha! Ha!

Next was a 2010 MacBook Pro, which is a working computer today!

My brother, Steve, was at BYU in Utah, taking one of the first computer science classes offered at the university. After his studies, he went to work at Evans and Sutherland, a computing company.  Steve had made a business trip to Switzerland and was shown one of a handful of programs that were for entertainment. One was called Zork. I suppose he was given a copy by the owners when he went to Switzerland to participate in a computer conference. At any rate, he gave me a copy which I put on my Timex computer. It was a tiny program. I think he just got a miniature version of Zork, and he gave it to me to see if I liked it. I loved that tiny program. I put it on a cassette. A younger person would not even recognize the cassette; it was the medium for songs and small programs. I don't remember, but Zork was probably only a few hundred kilobytes in size.

Wow! I'm feeling so old! Ric