Interesting, watching an OLD rerun of Password Plus ... They have a contestant who is involved in "computers." They are questioning its use, how it is used, what good is it, what can be done on it, "I wish you would explain it to me, what is it used for?" "What are Home Computers used for?"
I remember asking those same questions, many years ago. We bought our first one, had to drive to Columbus, Ohio, one store sold them, they had one downtown and one up North at another store. My wife corrected me, however, she thought we got our first one at Radio Shack, then, later, got a new one in Columbus. Her memory is better than mine, so that is probably what happened.
We drove to Westerville, the Columbus suburb, walked in to this store, full of all these unknown wonderful machines, awed by all of them, which ones to look at, which one to purchase?
I only remember the first printer, an HP500. After some discussion, the salesman suggested Microsoft Publisher, which we got and have used since then, still do today.
Downloads took all night, almost any URL was available to purchase, I got joedooley.com and got each family member their own .com, which were all available. I remember nfl was available as were many others, but, why get them?
I remember a gentleman came to our print shop, he had heard we had a ...... computer ..... . His problem, he had just bought one, plugged it in, but could not get on the ......... internet ......... why, what's wrong. "We have to get a what?"
I just looked it up, that store back then, and still is MicroCenter.
