What was your first computer?
An Atari 400. Ah...remember those? The baby brother of the Atari 800. My mother gave it to my father as a Christmas present in 1979 or 1980.
I spent many an hour planted in front of that computer playing many different games, from Pac-Man to Star Raiders (still one of the best games of all time). This computer was also my first exposure to programming. I wrote my very first programs on that system using Atari BASIC (yes, even using that awful membrane keyboard).
The Atari continued to have a long life, even well after my parents brought home the Apple ][e. It finally died in 1991, I think, after it received a severe static shock which caused the keyboard to no longer function.
Honestly, I wish I still had that computer.
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