As you can tell from the title, I’m about to date myself. That’s okay, I’ve never been one to mind aging.

Although I worked on computers at work (starting with the dos age), I got my first home computer in 1994. I had been traveling for work and they handed me a laptop. That was fun. And yes, that last comment smells of sarcasm. I became very proficient, very quickly because loosing reports was not pleasant.

My first home computer was a Gateway. I believe it was 75 MHz and 256 mg hard drive. Not much by todays standards but it was top notch at the time. I remember one time when I was on the phone with tech support. The guy I was talking to had worked on computers years before in the military.

At one point we were talking about hard drive capacity. He said he believed that one day computers would have a gig hard drive. I can remember thinking how ridiculous that was. Now I have a tiny 2 TB thumb drive.

I am constantly in awe of technology and what my little smart phone can do. Little in comparison to that old computer I had.