[AnnieBL]

When I look at you girls arguing about being techi !! Reminds me to the days where desktop computer ( used by airline for booking) had 5 boards , no processor ,1k core memmory , program loaded by papertape. Or 8 inch floppy . And there were no sandwich circuit boards or miniturised chips and no operating system :p. And I used to repair that fixing 1 bit of 1k memmory !! When I left the industry the floppy had gone to 3.5 inch doubble side doubble density ,1 meg ram , 32 bit processor . And land of atari home computers

Ah, those were the days. I remember when the first personal computer store opened in Toronto (1976?) and I was pondering whether I dared spend $500 on an Altair kit with a front panel, a 2MHz 8080 processor board and 512 bytes of memory. In the end I built myself a 'TV typewriter' instead and then acquired a wife and ready made family so didn't buy my first computer until 1980, an OSI Superboard which was a real learning experience due to deplorable and misleading documentation and impossibly buggy software.