lol, well hell yeah!! I don't think we got one til 96. Hard to believe that was almost 10 years ago now. Seriously....time flies. I remember my parents blowing me away with thoughts like...."when there were no TV's, or air conditioners in the summer...." nowadays I would like to blow up the TV, and do without artificial air conditioning, for the most part. but as a child, I found those thoughts monumental in importance. (we lived in a hot climate then too, I don't now).
i was 'over thirty' before you could go to a store, by one, take it home, plug it in and actualy do something, mostly play text based star trek. that was in 77. and it was another five years before us mere mortals could afford anything like a storage medium completely under the machine's control. in 75 you could build one from a kit but finding the parts to make the kind of power supply it needed wasn't easy. when i graduated highschool in 66 it was still a dream that the average joe would ever have one, at not one person in a hundred really understood what they were or why anyone would ever want one. there WERE 'computers' in 1948 when i was born. i think five of them in the whole world. they filled gymnazium sized rooms and were about as powerful as a cheep pocket calculator is now and not nearly as reliable. in those days, aside from releys and servos, electronics pretty much ment vacume tubes and radio. even television was bleeding edge. and fm let alone sterio was downright amazing. i'm glad we've got computers and the internet, but we sure didn't gain anything by the automobile replacing passinger trains and trolleys.
The evolution of home computers has always fascinated me. From about 1MHz to 3GHz is really something. I collect the old PCs from the 80s. I'll try to post some pics. .
