First Steps...

Today I decided to hunt down the first "computer" I ever had...

At first I thought it was a Texas Instruments programmable calculator. But after much searching I came up empty-handed. Then I thought hard, "What else could it have been?" On a whim, I looked up Tandy programmable calculators from the 80s. And lo! There it was, the Tandy PC-6 on a wikipedia page. Whew. Mission accomplished.

Next year I bought the venerable HP28 programmable calculator. Then an HP48G. Those were the good ol' days...