Well, Look! A Title

I was able to close everything, and make my way back here. Points for Dad!

You know, way back in the day, when the personal computer revolution was just beginning, the only home computer that was available, (for a LOT of money), was a box that had about 8 registers (Octal), that you 'programmed' instructions by flipping switches up or down (0 or 1) to make a 'word'. While I was tempted, (They had flashing lights! not LED's, but Lights!) I didn't spend the $2,500 for one of those gems. Almost wish I had, they are collectors items now.

So out came the Commodore Line but that was too 'toyish' for me. So I evaluated the Atari 800, and that was what I got. Now Atari is identified with video games, there was a place for game cartridges, but you could also program the things. I had a cassette tape deck and your could type in a program, and save and reload from tape. What a deal. Later, I even got a floppy drive! Wow 128K all on one, single sided disk! How would anyone need more room that that?

So I got some magazines and typed basic instructions, one line at a time. After about a thousand lines, I had a Moon Lander. Magic. Things went on from there. I discovered that there were people that ran a new thing called a bulletin board system (BBS for short). With a blazing 300 BPS telephone modem, I could post notes, and interact with other people, (not live of course)  and some even had programs that you could transfer over the phone modem, save to your tape or diskette and run later. Pretty exciting stuff!
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So that's my first real blog of how things were back in the dino age. Let me know if this was mildly interesting, or your regretted taking the time to read.