It appears Travellin' Dave's history review omitted a significant anniversary.
On this day in 1977, Radio Shack unveiled the TRS-80 microcomputer. I was living in Irving, Texas at the time, about to start 7th grade.
The TRS-80, and a DECWriter VT-120 in the math lab at Sam Houston Junior High, were the parents of my career in Information Technology. My five-year detour into ministry and social work, in the end, were a minor detour.
The grandparents of my career were Star Trek and the programmable accounting machines my dad sold for Olivetti in San Francisco in the very early 1970's. I was born at the ass end of Silicon Valley. There must have been something in the water.
I still adore electronic things with buttons that manipulate electromagnetic energy.