My first computer
March 07, 2010
In 1982 my father saw this ad in Popular Science, ordered and built the kit, and changed my life forever. Thanks, Dad.
Courtesy of the Popular Science Archives
In 1982 my father saw this ad in Popular Science, ordered and built the kit, and changed my life forever. Thanks, Dad.
Courtesy of the Popular Science Archives
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Gordon! That was my first computer, too! I built it at a workshop held at UMass Boston (near the JFK Library). It was the first time I ever soldered stuff and used chips and stuff. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing... one of the more geekier guys helped me out alot. I don't know why, but later I purchased a Timex-Sinclair when they came onto the marketplace. (I can't remember what happened to my kit... except my Sinclair kit wasn't black, it was white.
Next computer was an Atari 800 that I bought used. Then in Februrary of 1984 I bought a used Mac 128K from a woman who worked in a computer store that sold Apple II and Mac in Cambridge, MA. I wish I had kept a record of how much money I wasted on computers over the years.
Dave P.
Posted by: David Price | March 07, 2010 at 04:43 PM
Great story! The white Sinclair model was their first, the ZX-80.
Posted by: Gordon Meyer | March 08, 2010 at 08:43 AM