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You may not know this about me… but I am a major fan of old computers. 🙂 When I was a young boy, my parents bought a TI-99/4a Computer (Texas Instruments… had 16K RAM!!) 🙂 And, I began programming it (in… get this… BASIC !!! HA!!) And I took some more classes in school… I was hooked.
Well, we sold the TI long ago in a garage sale or something… and I didn’t have a computer till my senior year of college – my parents got me one as a graduation gift. A Macintosh Performa 6214CD. Very nice for its day. 8 MB RAM and a whopping 1 GB Hard drive. 🙂 We moved up the ranks pretty quickly after that… to an apple 6500/250 – then my parents got generous again and bought us the most amazing computer system I had ever seen – the G4 Dual 500Mhz Processor. 256 MB Ram, FORTY GB HD… Dual 500 Mhz G4 Processors… amazing.
It was shortly after that at a rummage sale that we found an entire Apple IIc system for only $5. Five bucks. I thought that was so incredible. We got it. We cleaned it, and fired it up… worked AWESOME! I found my old disk of programs I wrote in 7th grade! It was great. Well, that started it. Soon after that, I found an old TI on ebay. Took a couple tries… but finally got one that worked. 🙂 Very cool. NOW, here is just a sample of the inventory in this house:
[AT LEAST] 4 TI-99/4a Computer Systems (for parts and resale 🙂
Apple IIc
Apple IIgs
Macintosh Performa 6214CD
PowerMac 6500/250
iMac G3 333Mhz
iBook G3 600Mhz
Mac G4 Dual 500Mhz
Oh… we also found a Texas Instruments Speak & Spell at a garage sale in Las Vegas…