(sniff!) My first
computer. Aged 12, it was the shining beacon in my early life.
Mum and Dad matched my savings dollar-for-dollar (or so I thought at the time) and off we trundled to the local
Tandy store to pick up the first model on the Australian market. 4Kb RAM, compact-cassette interface for loading programs.
Dartmouth BASIC. Oh the joy of that first program! 10 PRINT Hello World; 20 GOTO 10. Decades later, I still can't quite believe that I disposed of that beautiful
artifact through
The Trading Post in favour of a stupid
Korg MonoPoly synthesiser. How much exactly did
The Human League change society? Not very damn much.