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This was my first ever encounter with a computer (sometimes brought home from work by my dad). I was 6 years old and instantly loved it. I played Dark Castle, Pyramid of Ra, Shuffle Puck, and Shadow gate from what I can remember. I still think its amazing how beautiful they made Dark Castle look, even though it was black and white on a tiny screen. It was a scary game for a six year old though, and pretty hard :) good times good times. I used that computer in high school. they replace all of them in the computer lab with the new I mac when it came out. I remember I use to play the first Sim City on that one when I was board. and loading the 2 floppy drives. Now students carry a USB flash drive. In the early 1980s, most computers were unruly and complicated beasts. And once you had the program open, the only practical way to interact with it was with the keyboard. This was the case across the board for computer manufacturers, Taking cues from the Xerox Star, it used a graphical user int...