JasonGalterio posted at 2:40PM Sat, 09 January 2021 - #4409529

ratscloset posted at 5:16AM Wed, 06 January 2021 - #4409516

Oh you young whipper snappers....

Hey now! :)

I remember when if you wanted a computer, and weren't willing to build it yourself, you had to go to some shady Mom and Pop store and have them build it for you. Even if you were going to do your own work, you had to go to them to buy at least some of the parts. At which point they'd pull out the mystical analog all text catalog to find the prices of the parts... Which they couldn't guarantee until the parts actually showed up.

Computers existed long before that. I remember wanting to get my first computer from Radio Shack. Basically they sold you the computer for about $600 if I recall correctly, but you had to use your TV. I think it was the TRS-80. My brother eventually did get one.