After being trained as an Electrician by my father since I was 12 summers I eventually went to college to study to become a computer programmer. However, I stayed with this profession only about 4 years time before I realized there was no RAM or Microchips yet in the business world which would allow me to do what I actually wanted to do in the field. So, I realized that it would be 50 years or more before things evolved to the point where what I wanted to do would be even possible with Artificial intelligence.
But, in the process I learned COBOL and FORTRAN computer languages and worked for several computer companies before I changed careers.
However, I remained a computer hobbyist for life and started buying micro computers in 1978 with my first computer being a Radio Shack TRS-80 for 800 dollars. Later in 1987 I bought an AT IBM Clone computer and an Epson Color printer for around 2500 dollars from silicon Valley near to where I lived then. I taught my older children to program in the Basic Language and to program their own games. Later I taught them how to use MS-DOS which was what microsoft excelled at before they started making Windows 95 which was the first operating system similar to what we have now worldwide in microcomputers that are IBM Clones. Apple was on somewhat different operating systems until Microsoft started making Operating Systems for Apple computers too.
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