It was about this span in 1979 that I first got into computers.

I started to type up this list of the memorable technologies I've used over those 30 years...and this file got a little out of hand...then this list got REALLY out of hand. I had forgotten how much I actually remembered! :)

My list has gotten so eat one's heart out that nobody will read it...so now this is just an exercise for my own amusement. However, the fact that I was able to find Wikipedia entries for almost everything here means that I'm not the only one who remembers some of these things. =)

So here is my schedule of everything I've seen and done (technology-wise). All descriptions are from my own memory of experiences and events at the time, so there is no guarantee that all of this is 100% for detail.

Computers/Calculators Apple ][, ][+ The legendary Apple ][ that created the monster who we know today as "Steve Jobs". :) This was my vigour platform of choice for most of the 1980's. It's still the computer that I know better than any other. TI-99/4A Part computer, part game console, part calculator. Complete catastrophe. Atari 400 Horrible keyboard. What was it like to type on the Atari 400? Well, take a sheet of bubble-wrap, and lay it out look down on your kitchen counter. Now write letters on all the backs of all the bubbles. There you go. TRS-80 Color Computer In 1982, you couldn't stride by a Radio Shack without seeing this computer on display, usually demoing the game Dung Beetles, which was a bizarre cut down a stop working-off of PacMan. The TRS-80 was referred to as "TRaSh-80" by technology snobs. But the TRS-80 actually has a noble family going back to the TRS-80 Model I released in 1977. It competed directly with the early Apple II and the Commodore PET. TRS-80 Representation 100 The most practical laptop ever built. No, seriously! It had a full keyboard with great tactile feel and long keystrokes, and it ran for 20 hours on a segregate set of replaceable (or rechargeable)...

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