Quite right, comrade!
My first experience with computing was an adult ed course, programming in Basic, that I took with my lovely young wife at the local middle school . . .
where my son, as yet not even a thought, later graduated as valedictorian! [
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I enjoyed coding a little loan amortization program (for paying back the Mother-in-Law) so much that I bought myself a brand spankin' new Commodore 64! The wife bought me the 5.25" FDD for my birthday, in an era where almost everyone else was using a cassette tape drive for I/O!
When I enlisted in the MLA, I chose the name Trash80toG-4 to let the lil' chillun' runnin' the show that I was an old codger and to reflect the first computer I'd ever used and my latest acquisition: a brand new 466 DA.
When they let me outta my little padded room, I wanted to get back online, but only at free WiFi spots so as to get me out and about to socialize every day. I spotted HP_Mini just three days after I was released. That lil' Black Beauty with the docking port and 92% KBD reminded me SO MUCH of what a modern rendition of my beloved PowerBook Duos ought to be, that I bought one after reflecting for just one lap's worth around that BIG@$$ Open Shopping Center.
I re-upped with the new handle very soon thereafter because I couldn't remember, or find, my password . . . :
. . . and the G-4 seemed VERY dated by then! [
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