We bought out first home computer in 1985, a 512k Macintosh, what they called a 'fat-mac' (the original Mac had only 128k of memory). A couple of years later we had it updated to double-density floppy drives, 800k instead of the original 400k drives.

Our youngest son was only seven years old and he grew-up using computers. He got his first job working on computers before he was old enough to drive. We would dropped him off at a mortgage company where he and one of his high school friends had gotten a job working from when after they closed until about 10:00pm. This was back in the days before computers where on-line 24/7. They hired these high school kids because a) they knew computers and b) they were available to work nights when the office was closed. What they did was log into their systems, dial-up the home office and upload the day's records and transactions, download any updates or changes and then do a taped back-up for local recovery protection. He did this for about six months, and he's basically worked in IT ever since. After high school he went to work for a company that sold computer hardware and by the time he was 20 he was running their 800-number support team helping customers. He eventually left there and for bunch of years he worked for a company that was a certified Apple service provider. This is where he got his Apple Platinum service certificate.

Currently he's working for a company that does recovery and restoration for companies who've been hacked or have been hit with ransomware. He works with people like Dell and the FBI when they've been called into large American corporations. He, and his soon-to-be-wife, whose worked most of her life in logistics and program management, are currently putting together a deal with one of their 'private customers' whose company invests in start-ups, to go off on their own since he's been doing so good and he now has his Dell and FBI contacts and there's more business out there then can be handled by the current vendors.

Anyway, he's doing really well. For him, working with computers is just second nature as he's virtually grown-up with them.

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Yes, our 1985 'fat-mac' came with a dot-matrix printer. And we thought that we were the bee's knees.

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