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My father's first job out of college was as a salesman for IBM.

One day when I was little, he brought home a microcomputer (about the size of a dorm fridge) before he had to deliver it to a customer the next day and stayed up all night programming it to make an EBCDIC (it was IBM, after all) printout of Mickey Mouse.

My first computer was an IBM "portable" PC:



My dad had a random 8½ floppy drive laying around as late as 2002.
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