Category Archives: Down Memory Lane

It Was Always The “Amiga 1000”

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Blake Patterson

I have written a number of posts over the years about the Amiga 1000 computer, the first model in the Amiga line, which was released by Commodore in late 1985. I purchased my first Amiga 1000 in October 1985 from Chaney … Continue reading →

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My Earliest Memories of Microcomputing — And How I Came About Them

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Blake Patterson

I was lately in a twitter back-and-forth with some of my vintage computing brethren when the topic of the earliest systems each of us owned came up. My first was a TI-99/4A gifted me (I coached the parents on the … Continue reading →

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A Phone Call I’ve Remembered These 28 Long Years…

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Blake Patterson

My first home computer was the TI-99/4A from Texas Instruments. I wanted to get a “real computer” (I had an Atari 2600 at the time), I bugged my parents, and I got to choose from what was on the (1982) … Continue reading →

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