I thought I would spend a little time re-mincing about technology and the changes over the last 25 years in the computer business. A lot has changed and in tech one week can be a life time. Sit back and enjoy the ride.
When I first started programing the first machine I ever wrote software on was an Apple II plus. This computer ran in the 5000 dollar range including the 11 inch white on green monitor my Dad had. I learned to program in Apple Basic. The Spreadsheet that my Dad used was the pioneer program VisiCalc. VisiCalc was the first main spreadsheet program out on the market and at the time nothing came close to it. I wrote several large programs in Apple basic. I used the Apple II to communicate to online services and BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). It was my first taste of communicating with the outside world.
Around the time the high school I was at Had the Model III by Radio Shack and I learned to do basic programing as well.
I then moved from the Montreal to the Toronto area. The high school I went into still had an IBM-1130 on site as well as a pc lab. The first year student’s were required to learn on the IBM-1130 to have an appreciation for what program on cards was like. I am so glad I no longer have to do cards either bubble or punched cards because it was not my idea of fun at all.
Since this time I have had the pleasure on working on most desktop, laptop, and tablet models of PCs which ran Microsoft O/S systems. I had not really ventured back into the Apple world until I purchased my IPhone and then my Ipod. It is just interessting to think I started on an Apple II series machine.
