My first¹ computer was a 386DX with 1MB of RAM (which I quickly upgraded to 13MB as with 1MB, LaTeX compiled documents at 1 page per minute, but that was the pl

My first¹ computer was a 386DX with 1MB of RAM (which I quickly upgraded to 13MB as with 1MB, LaTeX compiled documents at 1 page per minute, but that was the plan all along—just trying to avoid the high cost of RAM from the computer vendor). ⸻ 1. Technically, my first computer was a 64K Spectravideo that I got as payment for writing some demo programs for the Chicago distributor of that system, but as it was pretty quickly orphaned, it’s easy to forget about.