Bought my first computer - an Apple II - about 1979 - monochrome screen, no HD, 48 K memory and the big floppy. There was little software. Applewriter was the word processor and it worked - but you have five diskettes and had to feed different ones in to get the function you wanted. Then, if you finished what you wanted, you used another floppy to save it. Got it for use by a disabled son, but found I had to learn to program it to get something he would use.
A little later I moved to a IBM PC, then a PC XT, PC AT, PC II and so one. for almost 20 years I moved up in computers ( partly paid for by work). Funny, but each computer was far more powerful than the last - and each cost almost precisely $2,000. Only in the last decade or so have there been cheaper computers available.
I remember CompuServe and AOL when they were proprietary networks before the Internet. It was all cutting edge, and fun. In some ways it was better because you had to work to get a little information. Today you are flooded with so much info that it is have to discern what is valuable, useful, true or simply trash... TBN excepted of course.
