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Originally Posted by RedCherry
My first computer cost $1,500 and that was with an employee discount. My neigbor took me in posing as my Dad. It was a PCJr with 512k ram (I upgraded from the standard 256k ram) and no hard drive. I learned to program cobol on that sucker, had to swap my program floppy, then the floppy with the code on it to compile it, lol.
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That's a cute story, you forgot to mention that crazy little chicklet keyboard. I was working in a beta computer store which was trying to become a franchise (I was a purchasing agent and you wouldn't believe how much stuff was given to me free... software came in plastic baggies and we would round table with Bill Gates twice a year at expos). Very exciting days and you a girl at the time into PC's, very cool.