My own "first" was a Mac LCII. My college freshman year roommate had had one of the one piece Macs, I don't remember what it was called, but it had a smallish monitor which with the computer itself came in one unit. I thought I was fancy having a separate COLOR monitor. Looking back, I should not have pushed my parents into this extravagance because I was not tech savvy like you, and really just used the computer to chat on IRC via the USC internet, and type up papers. And, I certainly didn't need a color monitor for any of that... funny to think of 56k modems. I had a 2400 baud, which was significantly faster than the 1200 the dorm kids were using.
Great story! We have pretty similar computing histories. I messed with Trash-80s and Macs back in school and ended up with a TI-994a and then got a PC around 88-89 or so.
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My own "first" was a Mac LCII. My college freshman year roommate had had one of the one piece Macs, I don't remember what it was called, but it had a smallish monitor which with the computer itself came in one unit. I thought I was fancy having a separate COLOR monitor. Looking back, I should not have pushed my parents into this extravagance because I was not tech savvy like you, and really just used the computer to chat on IRC via the USC internet, and type up papers. And, I certainly didn't need a color monitor for any of that... funny to think of 56k modems. I had a 2400 baud, which was significantly faster than the 1200 the dorm kids were using.
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