Where Are They Now?
April 3rd, 2009 by ComputerBob
Some of us have been using computers for longer than others of us have been alive.
We were there before home computers had floppy-disk drives — when we had to save the programs that we wrote onto cassette tapes.
We were there when you could order the internal electronics of — and the drawings for how to build a wooden case for — an Apple computer, from an ad in the back of Popular Science magazine.
We were there when CP/M was the dominant operating system on microcomputers.
We were there when DOS 1.0 was released. It fit onto one 5 1/4-inch floppy disk — computer hard drives didn’t exist yet.
We were there when it was a big deal to take apart a 2-floppy-drive PC and upgrade its power supply so that it would have enough power to run an expensive 5 MB hard drive that could hold DOS, WordPerfect, and every document you could ever dream of creating.
We were using home computers before the world wide web existed.
We were using home computers before Microsoft existed.
We remember who Gary Kildall was.
And how much the entire microcomputer industry — and Microsoft — owe to him.
If you’re one of us, then you’re going to remember — and have probably owned and/or used — most of the stuff in Where Are They Now? 25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die.
If you’re one of us, you remember what it was like “in the old days” of personal computers.
But you might not remember what you had for lunch yesterday.
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