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To: ajtj99 who wrote (3129)	1/3/2022 9:31:31 AM
From: Lou Weed	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10609

First home computer was a Commodore 64 in the early/mid 80s. BASIC programming and of course games. Rockwell AIM65 in college (assembly language). Had my first work PC in '92 (Gateway 2000.....I think it was a 33MHz processor). Discovered the internet and Mosaic was my first browser in the '93/94 timeframe. Mind blown.......

To: ajtj99 who wrote (3129)	1/3/2022 9:50:09 AM
From: research1234	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Respond to of 10609

My first office job was in 1973 at a large insurance company - IBM 365 mainframes, punch card programming in COBAL and Fortran, changing to limited, primitive terminal input and output by 1978 or so. Went to a smaller company around 1980, got one of the first IBM PC’s in late 1981 or early 1982, whenever they were first available, VisiCalc them Lotus 123. Company pretty much followed the path you did - full PC shop switching to Microsoft office suite when it became available, except for communication and other creative types who used Apples, What a great time that was - everything changing, moving things from mainframes to PCs, creating new software that couldn’t exist on mainframes, and as a result creating new business models.