My entries have been so erratic the past few weeks, but it isn;t for a lack of wanting to , more a lack of time...But I’m here now and I have some time to spare, so I’m going to take advantage..

SO you wanted me to talk about my first interaction with a computer eh???

TOPIC TUESDAY: MY FIRST COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
(sorry Georgy, I have no desire to research stripper, anyway, there is a two page spread about them ion the Journal do Montreal today, so go read about it there)

So.. Lets see.. I have o go waaayy back to remember this. You see computers have been present in my family for as long as I can remember. I thing my brother Lucas taught himself hoe to read on a computer.. He was programming computers before he was even in school!

SO, the very first memory of a computer that I have...... was the Apple II plus. It was big, beige and wonderful. It was so cool. There was this big machine and when you put this floppy (yes I said floppy) disk in, you could play all sorts of wonderful games. The first game I remember playing was...Well the name I can’t remember but it was a driving game and you drove through blue blocks?? I know that my siblings will remember the name, I however can’t right now....

SO that was our first of many many computers. I remember playing on it all the time. You have to remember that this was like the early eighties and not too many people had computers so this was a big deal..

My favorite computer out of them all? Well this one of course cause it’s fast and reliable and the screen is gynormous.. But the most fun was probably either the Atrari XL( was it xl?)( for games like Mule and New York City) but I played the most games on the..uh..the....uh oh, memory blank.. the one that we had in the apartment that was in mum and dad’s room....was it an atari as well? I can still remember the serial number from the mouse..why I dunno, just like d to memorize numbers (A2845165053).

We had like a million game on there, my favourite were the adventure game. Kings Quest, Police quest. Leisure suit Larry.. All of which we had the walkthroughts and cheats for...

It’s so weird, I used to only use the computer or games and stuff, but now we have Playsations and Nintendo for games, computers are more for work....
And now I hae this wonderful Power Mac....amongst the other three that are in the basement dong god knows what...

So that’s what I remember about my first computer....Man have they come a long was. We still have the Apple II plus’s keyboard, and up until like a year ago, my mum was using the monitor as her tv.....The printer still works too.. But I don;t see ever using it again, remember taking off the edges of your pages??

I'm happy that we've always had computers. I can't imagine only starting to learn about them now. It's like learning a nw language now, it's so much easier when you are young....

Anyhow. I have so much moe to learn about computersa, and I lucky to have very coputer literate brothers who help me.. after all I and the administrator to the HP300 we have in out basement...