Jay.slovak said:
Nice article. My first computer was in 1999, Celeron 333 32MB RAM and 4GB HDD. I liked it a lot. I am glad that many changed from 1970's.
You missed out on a LOT! Jay, those were the great days! - before IBM became involved in home computers.
My first computer was a Tangerine Microtan 65, it was a 6502 based machine that you built yourself, it predated the ZX81.
You should bear in mind that a PIC running at 4MHz has considerably more power than those old machines, the Microtan used a 750KHz clock. By missing those days you missed out on a lot of stuff which you now do with PIC's, a great deal of which was developed back then.
I still have a great fondness for the 6502, I'd love a single IC (like a PIC) but based round a 6502.