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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 6278048, member: 19463&quot;]My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99-4a.&nbsp; When TI dropped out of the computer business they gave free to the world their implementation of the Forth language so my then elementary school daughter and I learned Forth enough to write some games like &#039;Turtle&#039; which was a frogger rip off and &#039;Mousekins&#039; which was an adventure where mice had babies and died.&nbsp; Shortly after we got a 286 for which there was no free Forth but we enjoyed online &#039;Stumpers&#039; where librarians like my wife posted questions they had been asked at work but could not find.&nbsp; Usually what one person had been asked had come up somewhere else before.&nbsp; That was when I got my first e-mail and chose dougsmit for my name because you could only have eight letters at that time.&nbsp; In February 1997, I posted the first of my web pages in free space from Geocities.&nbsp; Back then there was not much on the Internet about ancient coins.&nbsp; We waited for the arrival of paper catalogs in the mail and called &#039;long distance&#039; (expensive) to reserve things we wanted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Coins shows were highlights of&nbsp; the year and usually happened near me about every month.&nbsp; Over half of my coins came from that era.&nbsp; I never warmed up completely to buying coins online.&nbsp; I doubt my hobby will survive Covid since so many &#039;show only&#039; dealers are retired now.&nbsp; I wish I still had the TI computer so I could play those games.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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