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Originally posted by venturi
Nobody bought me a computer ever. I built my own with money I'd earned. I was on computers many years and years before that happened though.
Interesting question here: How many of the GFYers remember 300 baud accustic modems and dumb terminals with thermal paper output instead of a monitor? How many remember punch cards or even know what that means? I'm betting 0.15%, but that's just a gentleman's bet. 
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I used to go into my father's office when i was young and he'd be using punch cards to run his programs..
My current boss relates stories of punch cards to me often also.. getting all the cards in the right order took a while... and sometimes someone would switch one out of place and the whole thing would be fucked up.. they only had once chance per day to run a program because of the demand from other departments to use the 'computer'.
At home we had a pre 286 computer that i was allowed to use to play crappy old games on - space invaders, zork, alley cat, lode runner etc) and before that he had a sinclair/tandy type clone with no drive input that plugged into the tv that you could program yourself eg; 10 print "hello world" 20 goto 10 etc. i used to program sounds into it and type out code for simple games from books.
I bought my first computer - 586 second hand and modified it over time.
funny video.. brings back memories.