by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
In which I try to understand why I own a computer.<\/strong><\/p>\n I bought my first personal computer in 1983. It was a Kaypro portable (luggable) that ran CP\/M and had two new-fangled floppy disks that held 360KiloBytes of information each (a huge upgrade to the prior model that had 180KB floppies). I bought this because I was in graduate school and had to write papers for classes, frequently. The alternative was to go to a computer lab on campus and write the papers there. By owning a computer, I could stay home with my wife on weekends. Good reason, right?<\/p>\n Today I have an Apple iMac of some sort or other. I don’t recall if it is two or five years old. I lose track of these things these days. I also have a MacBook Air to carry about with me. I bought it because my prior Apple laptop quit working after five years (or was it seven years, I forget).<\/p>\n If I didn’t own my personal computer, where would I go to compute? I have no idea. The Internet is out there with everything a computing person wants. Still, I need a screen and probably a keyboard to reach the Internet.<\/p>\n Still, if I didn’t own a computer, where would I go?<\/p>\n I guess I would go to the public library and signup for an hour of time on a public machine. I could also go to a university lab and use a computer there. Still, having my own means I can stay home with my wife on weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips In which I try to understand why I own a computer. I bought my first personal computer in 1983. It was a Kaypro portable (luggable) that ran CP\/M and had two new-fangled floppy disks that held 360KiloBytes of information each (a huge upgrade to the prior model that had 180KB floppies). I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}