#1980s – Visions From Schrödinger's Box

Billionaires In Space and My First Computer

A SpaceX dragon capsule in Earth Orbit. The solar panels extend from the left and right sides of the craft as the Earth is visible below.

When I was 9 years old, I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC-20. It was nothing by today’s standards, with 3 kilobytes of memory and a 1 megahertz CPU, and even then it cost $299 in 1982, which is about $850 today. It was a surprise gift from a friend of my father, aContinue reading “Billionaires In Space and My First Computer”