{"id":167,"date":"2014-11-08T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-11-08T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:21:56","slug":"holiday-season-memories-your-first-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/holiday-season-memories-your-first-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Season Memories: Your FIRST Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/trs-80-microcomputer-news-dec19821-e1415481399844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/trs-80-microcomputer-news-dec19821-e1415481399844-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/trs-80-microcomputer-news-dec19821-e1415481399844-300x263.jpg 300w, http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/trs-80-microcomputer-news-dec19821-e1415481399844-200x175.jpg 200w, http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/trs-80-microcomputer-news-dec19821-e1415481399844.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Delivers Fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1970-something or 1980-something and you just woke up from a long winter&#8217;s nap with sugarplums dancing in your head&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who are we kidding&#8230;?!?<\/p>\n<p>You couldn&#8217;t sleep A WINK due to the anticipation of waking up one morning to see what you could find for yourself in that pile of colorfully wrapped packages.<\/p>\n<p>But wait&#8230; what is that big one in the back? You push all of the other gifts aside and pull it near you. Oh my, it&#8217;s a HEAVY ONE!!! You rip away at the well crafted wrapping to reveal a&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>&#8230;BRAND NEW (<em>insert your first personal computer here<\/em>)!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We would love for you to fill in that blank for us. If you have a fond memory of receiving your first computer during the holiday season, let us know the details. Contact us at <a href=\"mailto:feedback@historyofpersonalcomputing.com\">feedback@historyofpersonalcomputing.com<\/a> with your story. We will share your story on a special holiday edition of the History of Personal Computing podcast.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t mind being interviewed via Skype instead, let us know via email and we will try to arrange a recorded interview with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 1970-something or 1980-something and you just woke up from a long winter&#8217;s nap with sugarplums dancing in your head&#8230; Who are we kidding&#8230;?!? You couldn&#8217;t sleep A WINK due to the anticipation of waking up one morning to see what you could find for yourself in that pile of colorfully wrapped packages. But wait&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}