Having already programmed for years in COBOL, then Fortran and Basic, I got my first personal computer in 1981, an Apple II+. It had 48k of RAM, a Motorola 6502 microprocessor and a floppy drive which maybe could handle 140k per floppy. It had a converter to use with an old tv and a clickity-clackity keyboard. I was so impressed with my new computer power.
Not long after getting it, I added a CP/M card. Now I had a second computer in the same case, this one with 64k, a Zilog Z80 cpu and it offered a more sophisticated, vaguely UNIXy environment. Now things were getting really advanced.
Then came VisiCalc, WordStar and dBase and the world — and PCs, haven’t been the same since.
More on this technological journey in the posts to come.