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Yes and no. "Computers are the future", so middle class parents felt like they HAD to buy their kids a cheap Commodore or something. I think 80% of them ended u
by flomo 5y ago
Yes and no. "Computers are the future", so middle class parents felt like they HAD to buy their kids a cheap Commodore or something. I think 80% of them ended up in the closet, most of them were used like game consoles and maybe 1% of them created assembly language programmers. I know successful engineering people who had no interest in atari/commodore video game stuff.
Meanwhile, college students needed real work computers which were still quite expensive then. PC-XT/Mac Plus computers were not cheap in the late 1980s.
- nobodyandproud 5y agoI remember looking longingly at thick color catalogs of computers I could never afford. Like $4999 for a mid-priced Wang PC compatible. In the 1980s. A lot of money back then. An unimaginable amount for a poor, inner-city kid growing up during that time. It convinced my parent to buy a C64, as they must have felt sorry for me.
- vmception 5y agoSo like today