{"id":323,"date":"2003-12-23T21:11:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T21:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=323"},"modified":"2003-12-23T21:11:16","modified_gmt":"2003-12-23T21:11:16","slug":"apple_of_my_eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Apple Of My Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just reading this article<\/a> on people reminiscing about their first computers. My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99-4A<\/a>, complete with cassette tape drive that made these god-awful screeching sounds whenever you transferred data to or from it. It was hooked up to an old color television and I probably had it from 1981-82. That was followed by the Apple IIe<\/a> with the green monochrome monitor and dual floppy drive. It was really bitchin’ because it had the graphics adapter that could display 80 columns of text. I wasted hours on that thing playing Infocom<\/a> games (Planetfall<\/a> rules!) and Donkey Kong. Then came the promising but ill-fated Apple IIGS<\/a>, circa 1987. That was followed by a Macintosh Plus<\/a> (the first computer I operated with a HeadMaster) and then I entered the world of PCs. I remember my dad bringing home this XT from work that had a whopping 10 mb hard drive. When that one started to smoke, we replaced it with a 386. Then a 486. And so on… Looking at my current system, it’s light-years ahead of those clunky boxes, but I still have fond memories of sitting in the basement, in that muted green glow of the monitor, exploring a maze of twisty passages, all alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just reading this article on people reminiscing about their first computers. My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99-4A, complete with cassette tape drive that made these god-awful screeching sounds whenever you transferred data to or from it. It was hooked up to an old color television and I probably had it from […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-5d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}