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Dai Corner · 24th May 2020, 8:27 am

I was earning fairly decent money but still living at home in the mid 1980s so had the cash to splash on home computers like the ZX81, Spectrum, BBC Micro and Commodore 64. For me, the most important development was the modem, allowing access to social media (bulletin boards), banking and online ordering. Literally decades ahead of their time.

At work, the departmental budget stretched to a Commodore Pet so we could write our own software instead of having to go to the 'Data Processing' Department, custodians of the mainframe.

24th May 2020, 8:27 am	#61
Dai Corner Hexode Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Newport, South Wales, UK. Posts: 278	Re: Early personal computers - what for? I was earning fairly decent money but still living at home in the mid 1980s so had the cash to splash on home computers like the ZX81, Spectrum, BBC Micro and Commodore 64. For me, the most important development was the modem, allowing access to social media (bulletin boards), banking and online ordering. Literally decades ahead of their time. At work, the departmental budget stretched to a Commodore Pet so we could write our own software instead of having to go to the 'Data Processing' Department, custodians of the mainframe.