Quote Originally Posted by 'lordmythic',index.php?page=Thread&postID=215182#p ost215182
So after one summer busting my butt with 2 paper routes I was able to buy my first used pc in 1982 .. an Atari 400!! with upgraded ram (48k!! ..not meg...Kb!).
I used the paper route method to buy my first computer also, but I went with a brand new Vic20, so then I could not afford to upgrade the ram from the default 3k for quite some time. I could actually run the thing out of memory from typing in basic code by hand. Later I got a summer job at a "Kindercare" using that Vic20 to teach a basic computer literacy class to very young kids, I would haul it there on my bike and set up at a little tv in the teachers break room.