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It began with Heathkit
I first got into desktop computers in the late 1970's before the IBM PC came out. The brand I went for was Heathkit and their H-8 digital computerand H-9 terminal. The excitement when all those circuit boards and components came at my doorstep was beyond words.
It came with Extended Benton Harbor Basic loaded up from cassette, and no disc at all and 8K of memory. It was the greatest, I still have it today as is one of my attached photos.
When the IBM PC came along, I went to Heathkit again and built the H-151. This was Heathkit's version of the IBM PC compatible. It had a 10 MB drive and 640 K memory and GW-BASIC and MS-DOS.
This led to a 30 year developing career, including systems such as OS/2, Windows NeXTSTEP, OpenStep amd Mac OSX., including publishing of a book in 1995 through Sams Publishing entitled Developing NeXTSTEP Applications ISBN 0672306581
It has been a great Ride !
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