Thinking back, my Mom and Dad were fairly early adopters of computing, which certainly helped spark my interest in technology. We had the Sears Tele-Games version of the Atari 2600. I remember my Dad bringing home a Compaq Portable from the office a few times. Our first true personal computer was the Tandy 1000, sold by Radio Shack. The Tandy 1000 was a IBM PC compatible computer than ran on a special version of MS-DOS. I don’t remember exactly which model, but I’m pretty sure it had the Intel 8088 processor. I remember ours having two 5 1/4 inch disk drives, which made it easy to load DOS and then a program. My favorite game was King’s Quest, a graphical adventure game by Sierra. And of course we had a dot matrix printer for printing school papers.
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Project Hail Mary was great. This is the kind of movie that is best experienced in a good theater.
Watch and support Brandi Carlile’s stellar benefit concert “Be Human: A Concert for Minneapolis“
Google sure is taking its own sweet time with vertical tab support for Chrome.
I haven’t watch baseball for years, but I’m glad I did this year because the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series was fantastic.
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The Green Jacket and the career Major Grand Slam. A truly historic and exciting Masters. Congratulations Rory McIlroy.
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