May 3, 1980
First Personal Computer, Sort of…
My first computer was an Atari 800, with 8k of memory. Yes, that’s 8 kilobytes of memory. Not megabytes. It cost, after Illinois taxes, $1,149. In 2013 dollars that would be $3,256.
It connected to a television set, as that was the monitor. It used cartridges for some of the programs, including the Star Raiders game. It also had a tape disk drive and some programming capability using the Basic language.
I tried to create a “Wine Cellar” database program.