First computer my family owned (when I was a kid) was a Commodore Vic20. With an impressive 5kB of memory. But I also had huge 1, 3 AND 5kB memory expansion cartridges, man the games we could play with that amount of memory. We had an external 3.5" floppy disk drive which took frikkin' ages to load up a game. You young'ns complaining about load times these days, sheesh!
First computer I could truly call my own was an Acer Pentium 1, with 800Meg HDD, and it was my first use to the interweb and e-mail too. Bought in December 1996.
My first job out of vet school used an "innovative" new Windows based clinic management programme that a friend of my boss developed. Previously all other clinic management computer programmes (that I knew about) were DOS based.
I was there when people used to ask whether a computer was "IBM compatible". How quaint that sounds now.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
