Amiga 1000 was my first computer that we owned ourselves. Borrowed lots before then but that was the first that was ours.

It is really quite amazing how much they knew about how computing would evolve. It isn't very impressive.

Until now computer games are fascinating!

@Nic said:

SAM's getting old and senile and reminiscing about the good old days 🙂

Getting?

I dunno, a still find a lot of the pre-internet stuff quite shocking, even though I was there at the time. One of my best mates as a kid didn't have a phone in their house. So if I wanted to see him, I'd have to walk a mile to his house and knock on his door. Only to find he was out, and I'd have to walk home and try again later. Even though this was a part of my childhood, it still seems weird when I think back on it.

Or in my first job, if I had a problem with Windows, I'd have to phone Microsoft, wait on hold for twenty minutes, then describe the problem to them and they'd give me the answer (or not!).

Even sitting at a desk and feeding in 150 floppy disks in order to install Microsoft Office now seems totally weird.

On the other hand, I'm still supporting dBase III applications, which is equally weird.