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In 1981 I'm not sure that it was so obvious that computers would take over the world, definitely not to the general public. For context, I was 10 years old at
by superplussed 9y ago
In 1981 I'm not sure that it was so obvious that computers would take over the world, definitely not to the general public. For context, I was 10 years old at the time, and was the only kid in my school that owned a computer, a TI-99 that used a cassette drive as storage. It was so left-of-field to own a computer, that I remember not even really talking about it to my friends in school, because they had no context for why anyone would want such a strange device.
- aswanson 9y agoYou're approximately 2 years older than me. Fast forward to the Commodore Christmas of 1985. Pretty much everyone I knew got a C_64 that year.Things changed quickly.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoVideo game consoles were very big in the early 80's so I don't think computers were much of a stretch.
- jjtheblunt 9y agoit's also very randomly skewed in time depending on your town/city...chicagoland and just a few years older than you guys, but our school district had gotten a few computers and so we saw them and started monkeying with them...and there were Radio Shacks in the area, and Bell Labs a few miles away (in Illinois, secondary site), so lots of math-ish parents. Just random circumstance from the view of a kid.
- melling 9y agoThat's because they were expensive in 1981. When did the C64 drop to $199? 1982, 1983? That's when I got mine. Actually, I paid $299 and it dropped to $199 a few weeks later.