Yes…I'm a geek. I've been playing/working with computers since 1979. At that time, all they had were Apple's, Radio Shack's and Atari's. I walked into a Computerland and saw a demonstration of Atari's “Star Patrol” on a big screen TV…I was hooked. I ran out and bought an Atari 400. I then went home and stayed up all night typing in a program from the back of the manual that made funny letters and noises. Not having any way to store the program, it was gone as soon as I turned off the computer. Next came a cassette tape drive. Soon I was writing my own little programs and not getting any sleep for work. It was GREAT!!! The more I played, the more I wanted. I would drive for miles to other computer dealers just to find new and exciting things. I made the “big” move to an Atari 800, to a disk drive and then a printer. The joy kept getting bigger and bigger, and my paycheck kept getting smaller and smaller. At that time, the computer was over $1000.00, and the drive was $500.00. I soon realized that if I wanted to keep getting computer stuff that I would have to find a cheaper outlet. Then it hit me. Instead of driving all over the state to find things, just open
my own computer store. Made sense to me. You see, back then, computer companies were dying to get their products out to the public. They would practically give you the equipment to get started in business just to get their name out there. Soon I had Atari, NEC, Sanyo and IBM knocking on my door to carry their systems. It was great while it lasted. Jump forward to today, and no one back then would have dreamed of the things that we have now. My first modem was a 300-baud. It would take hours to download a simple game. Now I can't wait for a cable modem. The computer had 4K of memory, and now it has 512K. The processor was 8mgz, and now it's 800mgz going on to 1 Gig. But enough about “the good old days”...