What was the first computer you ever owned?

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Associate Vice President, Information Technology & CISO in Educationa year ago

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Senior Enterprise Architect, Application Consulting in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

Tandy (Radio Shack) 1000 SX with 640K. It was a solidly built IBM PC clone with the 8088 processor. I bought it for word processing and teaching myself C and SQL. It had a long second life as my kids’ computer- with no internet to distract them.

CTO in Softwarea year ago

IBM PC AT

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Chief Technology Officer in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

ZX Spectrum 16k (purchased in 1982!)

Chief Information Technology Officer in IT Servicesa year ago

Sinclair zx81 1980 then Commodore 64

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