Computing Days of Yore

Remember your first computer? I don't know about you, but it was a wonderous time for me. All endless possibilities and surprises, rather than the take-it-for-granted machines of today where we battle the internet, web-marketers, the hardware, the OS and half the applications as much we profit from having them (assuming you are a Windows user of course :)

I skipped the Commodore Vic-20 in my computing hey-day, going from the locally made Radio Shack style Dick Smith VZ-200 (with its 6K of RAM and no storage device) straight to the revolutionary Commodore 64 (what a machine), before graduating during college (with a loan from my grandma!) to what was one of the greatest machines of its day, the Commodore Amiga A1000. The next computer I bought after that was, believe it or not, last year (always having had laptops from my employer) when I got myself a delectable iMac G5.

It's hard to believe things have changed so much in the last 20 years. Yes, I am getting older and crankier. So this old 30-sec spot for the precursor to a great computer, hosted by a great (?) Canadian, is just priceless to me.