The Commodore 64 was introduced on the market by IBM 7 years prior to my year of birth, which led me to think that my parents owned this predecessor of the current high-tech computer far before the time i was just a twinkling in my father's eyes.
My father sometimes would put me on his lap and all i could remember was staring attentively at this blue screen with text. The Commodore 64 which could be described as the first home-user-friendly personal computer that was made, had as its name already suggests, just 64 kilobytes of memory. Nowadays an average computer has an internal storage of 2 GB of memory, what amounts to 2097152 kilobytes. While the use of the Commodore 64 during that time was limited to office use and playing 64-bit games. My father would use it for word processing, he would sometimes put me behind it to play games (under supervision ofcourse, it would not be sensible to leave a baby alone with such a valuable piece of technology).
I didn't get to spend much time behind the Commodore 64 at this age, but every waking moment i was pre-occupied with playing games. An activity that i enjoyed from an early age on, whether i was just randomly pressing some buttons, i really was a fanatic in randomly pressing buttons while drooling over the keyboard. Something i still tend to do nowadays when playing videogames. In that sense i'm still a baby.
I still own that same Commodore 64, it is somewhere accurately hidden in the confines of a dusty box in the attic. I hope it still works, maybe I should try to see. Oh, the good old days.
What technological innovations occured between 1989 and 1992?
1989:
- The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit
- Nintendo begin selling the Game Boy in Japan
- The 486 series of microprocessor introduced by Intel.
- Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first web page is written
- Microsoft Releases Windows 3.0
- A 16 megabit chip is shown for the first time
- Internet is made available to unrestricted commercial use and number of computers on the net reaches 1 million
- Microsoft Releases MS Dos 5.0
- AT & T release video telephone for $1,499
- The first Nicotene patch is introduced to help stop smoking
What technological equipment do you still own from this period?
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