We bought a home desktop machine that ran CP/M and used it for a while. I learned about markup.
We were happy to transition to a Mac about a year later. We got the Mac within 3 months of the product introduction (we named it Blossom because we put it in a room with a view of our apple tree, then in bloom).
We even got money for the CP/M machine – from our insurance company, after the computer was stolen in a burglary. They first said it wasn’t covered (I’m not sure they’d ever had a home computer claim before). We said: just 10 months ago your agent sat in our home and sold us the (renter’s) policy; we pointed explicitly at the computer and asked if it would be covered; the agent said yes. I believe we were paid through their own “errors and omissions” policy.
Were we early adopters? Why, yes. I got a BS in Computer Science in 1978 (uncommon, and even rarer for a woman). /brag
