I purchased my first computer when I came back to the United States. I was in the military, and my wife and I were stationed on Okinawa in May of 1981, returning to the U.S. in January of 1985. After settling into our new assignment at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, we went out and dropped about 2 grand on a Kaypro II. That was a huge chunk of cash for us. Looking like a portable sewing machine when it was closed, the heavy blue computer had a small green screen, 64K of ram and two 5 1/4 floppy drives. Running at 4.77 megahertz, the machine’s operating system was CPM 87.
My primary software was MicroPro Wordstar on a floppy.
In 1987, I replaced the Kaypro with a Zenith 100, which could use PC Dos, MS Dos, and IBM DOS. Still ran at 4.77, but the monitor was a big separate RGB monitor. I later added a 10 Meg hard drive, changed the processors, and added more RAM. 10 Meg, we thought, wow, would I ever use that much?
So much has changed in the decades since.
Michael Seidel, writer 
I’ve never heard of this one but I’ve seen it in a few posts today! Interesting. My first computer had…32 mbs of ram, I think.
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Rob’s first computer was a Kaypro II and he still has it (and all the software that came with it). Every so often, he fires it up, just to make sure it is still working.
I think one day he’ll have a computer museum featuring all the computers he has owned over the years. ~Nan
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Wow! I actually donated mine to a computer museum some years ago. I was in the military so we were always purging our belongings because we were moving. I’m sure you get that. Good for Rob, though. What a trip. Cheers, M
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I do get the purging when the military requires frequent moves. I guess that’s why I am always pleased to see what my son Michael has kept through the years. Furniture that my dad made tops the list, but he also kept a silly “Sandworms card” I made for him when he was on his first deployment to Iraq among other things he’s been given through the years. ~Nan
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