My father was a technical instructor at the ABC Toowong studios and I remember the Apple Lisa computer he used was has a high res screen so good that he designed his retirement home on it. Not like the IBM pc's with the horrible green screen flashing curser. He built a few Microbees, one we still had until recently used for visiting kid's to play games.
He built a walk behind slasher mower in the early 80's using the HDD hub from a room size computer as the slasher blade drive. No slop in those bearings.......was used for 20 years before being sold on.
I repaired computers for a while and there were some good stories about early computer uses going around. I like the one about the woman who kept ringing the tech to say the floppy disk would not work (the big floppy disk, not the 5 1/4") . Each time he came out he put a new floppy in the drive and it worked. Finally he decided to watch her put the floppy in........she first took it out off it's sleeve. ....... then put the BARE dick in the drive! Another had a floppy disk problem and was asked to send in the disk.
it arrived in the mail neatly folded in half to fit the envelope!
