Wow...what a loaded question, princessbelle. I will see how well I can tackle the answers....
1980 or 1981...I took a computer math class at the beginning of 9th grade. The schools computer was one preformed piece with monitor and keyboard. It had a modem which sat on the top and it had two holes in which the telephone receiver went. We would dial a number for a college nearby and hook up to their computer system which took up a whole room. We were then able to learn computer programming for that time. Each line began with a base ten number in sequence and we could insert go to commands if ___ then go to ____ commands...etc...I don't remember a whole lot of that but then again it was 31 or 32 years ago!
Fast forward to the mid 80's I had experience with a commodore 64 that my brother purchased. Later in the 80's my brother tore apart a premoulded one piece computer and designed his own. He had written to IBM and Apple and received schematics. He played around with it in the garage until he had a useful computer for what he wanted to use it for. Today, my brother has his own business and deals with high temperature extreme hardware for companies like Boeing, Lockheed, and the military.
Early 90's I was in college and learned Word Perfect, Quattro 1, 2, 3, and other programs.
Mid 90's I bought a Brother Word Processor for my own needs.
I then advanced to a Dell, an HP and today I am still a faithful buyer of HP products. It meets my needs and has never left me stranded.
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