[markman46]

i never thought in my wildest dreams I would be sitting in my living room with a tiny computer in my lap.

[chimera]

It still seems magical today, just like flying people to the moon still seems so amazing. Computers were big, noisy things that filled whole rooms or even floors of buildings that you fed boxes of punch cards and reels of magnetic tape. The best I could do recording images off the TV was hold a black and white film camera really still and maybe capture a screen image (I have some of the title screen and ending screens from the original Star Trek TV series). And going to the moon? Geez, I wondered how things as big as 707 airliners and B-52 bombers were able to get off the ground, much less something the size of a Navy destroyer (Saturn V) launching itself 30 or 40 miles into the sky (where it is when staging occurs). Feeling the wonder of such things is one of the few things that keeps me feeling young these days.