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Computer Ownership history

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In 1982 I got access to my first Apple, a II of some flavor or variety. The first "real" program I wrote for it was a device driver for an electrical sensor allowing it to be used as a primitive EKG. The second "real" program was a disassembler to crack the bootstrap code Apple put on floppies.

Highlights after that...first Macintosh, 1985...first "PC", 1989...first "commercial" Windows program, 1989...first unix exposure, 1990...first internet email address, 1993...first homebrew linux box, 1994...first time I needed 1gig of RAM, 1996...first time I needed a 64-bit OS, 1997...longest "legitimate" task I've ever run, 34 days on a small cluster of Suns in 1997...first clone Mac, 1997, which was also the last pre-OSX Mac (I really soured on MacOS starting with 8.x)...

I'm sure there's more, but that should cover the basics.