{"id":586,"date":"2014-06-06T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=586"},"modified":"2014-06-06T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:44:48","slug":"my-first-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/my-first-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"My first computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at this <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/byte-magazine-1981-08\/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page\/n15\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">old issue of Byte Magazine<\/a> online talking about Smalltalk.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/byte-magazine-1981-08\/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page\/n135\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">there was an ad<\/a> for my first computer, an MTI TRS-80 Model III.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Byte_Magazine_Volume_06_Number_08_-_Smalltalk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Byte_Magazine_Volume_06_Number_08_-_Smalltalk.png\" alt=\"Byte_Magazine_Volume_06_Number_08_-_Smalltalk\" width=\"887\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Byte_Magazine_Volume_06_Number_08_-_Smalltalk.png 887w, https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Byte_Magazine_Volume_06_Number_08_-_Smalltalk-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Byte_Magazine_Volume_06_Number_08_-_Smalltalk-755x1024.png 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was $1,998 in 1981 dollars which would be $5,136\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">today. \u00a0That&#8217;s was a lot of money for my family and a ton of money to be spent on a 14-year old. \u00a0But well worth it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Mom and Dad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at this old issue of Byte Magazine online talking about Smalltalk. Lo and behold there was an ad for my first computer, an MTI TRS-80 Model III. It was $1,998 in 1981 dollars which would be $5,136\u00a0today. \u00a0That&#8217;s was a lot of money for my family and a ton of money to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcedelica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}