My first computer was and IBM personal desktop. Spring 1987. I was about a 3 years into my own business venture  I was able to use DacEasy accounting software and a software Contact Management 1.0. on it.  The Contact Management 1.0 was what ultimately lead to Act! crm.  I still use Act! now owned by Sage.


I also recall a sales person  coming to my office to sell me something and he had one of the first Compag portable computers. Bulky and a bit heavy.


  Prior to that I has used something that created punch hole tape to run thru some computer and then a xerox display writer (I think that was what it was called.) that was early 1984.  I created a first generation database on it to manage the physcians creditential info at the hospital I worked at.  That was when I realized I totally understood understanding, creating and working with a database.  

My 25 yo Microsoft Certified Tech grandson was impressed with his Nana when I told him all that recently.  LOL


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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Whitaker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, Nov 8, 2014 4:31 pm
Subject: First Personal Computer Used


From memory, the first PC I used was an IBM PC-AT at the Univ of Missouri
in 1984.

I used a mainframe while in the ARMY in the early-mid 70s.  I learned what
I had to know to use it; did not understand it very well.


Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM, IGP


On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Jim Mullen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The first computer I used at work was a DEC PDP8 complete with paper <snip>
>

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