Chris Ahlstrom
Marek Novotny wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

Marek Novotny
On 2017-04-12, Silver-Tongued Heel <sl@im.er>wrote:

Silver-Tongued Heel
On 2017-04-12 1:42 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:

Steve Carroll
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 10:24:46 AM UTC-6, DFS wrote:

DFS
On 4/12/2017 10:10 AM, Melzzzzz wrote:

Melzzzzz
On 2017-04-12, DFS <nospam@dfs.com>wrote:

DFS
On 4/12/2017 8:33 AM, Melzzzzz wrote:

Melzzzzz
then again, not until 1994 I really start to enjoy computers...

DFS
Why not? I enjoyed DOS programs from '85 to '91 or so: Norton Commander, Javelin, Lotus 1-2-3, dBase, Paradox, Norton Utilities...

And then a little later came Doom and Heretic and Hexen.

Melzzzzz
I couldn't afford PC in that time...

DFS
Yeah, they were expensive back then. I think my Dad gave me my first PC (an 8086).

Today USD 1500 will get you a nice PC. That's 174758 RSD. Will that buy you a good system over there? Is that expensive relative to rent and food and gasoline?

Steve Carroll
I worked with PCs but I wanted an Apple. They were initially too expensive so I waited until the IIe came down to around $1500.00, which was still a bit of $$ back then.

Silver-Tongued Heel
What year was this? I still have trouble accepting that people actually got work done on those 8-bit machines. They seemed fairly useless.

Marek Novotny
You could learn to program in basic back then. On the Commodore 64 basic was the command line.

Chris Ahlstrom
I bought an assembly language cartridge to play with 6502 assembler.

Only played with for awhile, before I bought an Atari ST, which is my most nostalgic computer. I used that for BBS access, games, and a lot of work with MIDI. Even a little C programming.

Soldered additional memory chips piggy-back to double its RAM to 1 Meg.