The Remington Rand UNIVAC, now that was a real breakthrough. When the first commercial customer, Franklin Life, bought one for a million bucks in October of 1953 to help solve 'accounting problems' - that was a historic moment.

Commercial use and acceptance of 'computers' started on that day.

The TRS-80 and the APPLE and the Commodore Vic-20 , C64 and Sinclair ZX81 were all frontrunners in the consumer - computer acceptance program.

I ran much of my software from DOS basic for a long while after Windows appeared. Windows is simply a slowing, memory consuming irritant.

However, once the software manufacturers pandered to microsoft - and made stuff that couldn't be started in DOS, the end of the computer owner as a programmer was in sight. Now the computer owner is a mindless mouse clicker who drifts in a world he can't control.

10 Poke 16134, 12543
15 A=0
20 If A>100 then goto 30
25 A=A+1
30 ?"microsoft stinks"
40 goto 20

Yep... Basic how I miss ya!

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