Last week (that was when I started writing the blog) I was in washington DC visiting National Institute of Standards and Technology and they had sort of museum of micro processors with oldest one being 486. Imagine that, 486 being the oldest. I still have my 8086 (I am getting older :( ) lying in the attic somwhere. A trip down the memory lane got us discussing the first ever computer we ever used.

It sounds archaic but surprisingly its only about two decades ago when popular computers did not even have a monitor, they had to be connected to TV. I remember our first ZX Spectrum 48..That 48 stands for 48 K of memory it had, and believe it or not; with no harddisk. One could use tapes (yes audio ones) to save your data via tape recorder. They had games even then, "go to hell" is the only one I remember :). Couple of my chinese friends got nostalgic over their Commodore which was release in 1982 (Thank you Wikipedia..) and Apple's, not very popular in India.

Then came our 8086, with 640K of memory and 30 MB of hard drive running on age old MS-DOS. But then, lets not get too geeky here....

-M

ps: spell check feature doesnt seem to work...and this is a Google product...Is anyone listening...