I *think* it was 1982: membrane keyboard; 2k ram; 16k ram pack; cassette program loading; 5" (!) color tv for display; and narrow little thermal printer (32 character per line). Function keys allowed to think I was looking under the hood, a-peeking and poking. It was a start. In 1984 moved to a fat-Mac with third party SCSI port and have remained Mac since with no regrets (okay... I do run Windows in Parallels...gotta play nice with much of the world...).
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I *think* it was 1982: membrane keyboard; 2k ram; 16k ram pack; cassette program loading; 5" (!) color tv for display; and narrow little thermal printer (32 character per line). Function keys allowed to think I was looking under the hood, a-peeking and poking. It was a start. In 1984 moved to a fat-Mac with third party SCSI port and have remained Mac since with no regrets (okay... I do run Windows in Parallels...gotta play nice with much of the world...).