I remember when my boss got the first home computer I had ever seen. He brought us all to his house to see it. I said, what good is it? What can you do with it? He said, I got a dictionary on it. And a cookbook. I said, I’ve got a dictionary, why do I need a computer?
I hate to say it, it was quite a few years before I saw the light. My work was eventually, like most peoples’ work, highly computerized eventually. But at that time, whatever you could do with a computer, I could do faster by hand. It was a long time before I finally broke down and got my first one. And later still before I finally figured out what that new-fangled “internet” was good for.
#38 I bought a Packard Bell Windows 95 pc in Dec 1995.
I cannot imagine being without a computer. I learned how to fix computers because I had a Packard Bell pc : )