Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Apple II

My very first playtime I had with computers was probably the Apple II. I think it was called that. Maybe something else even, but hey, I was too young to know, let along bother! 😉

It had that smallish monochrome monitor, which had green text. Yes, green and black. Nothing else. The keyboard was integrated with the CPU. It only had the standard letters and the top row of numbers. No keypad at all. The floppy drive was the big versions, 5 1/4" type. Man, it didn’t even have the 1.2MB capacity it’s descendants enjoyed before they were phased out. I think it’s only 360kB or something. Memory wasn’t very big too. It could have hit 2 MB, though I could be wrong. Oh, it had to be booted up from the floppy.

Computers... how did I live without them?

Another FFAF is upon us? Where did April go?

Just the other day, I was thinking about how I’ve been an Internet surfer for only nine years. I never had a home computer till I was in college, and as a commuting student, I’d spend the hours between classes in the computer labs chatting on the now-defunct theglobe.com and making really bad personal webpages on Geocities.