Hell Just Froze Over (If I Believed in It)
Because I started my foray into owning computers before Apple was a big thing, I was used to Windows-based systems. I remember using computers as far back as high school (were they called PAL BASIC??) and in my second year of journalism, in 1986-87 (Xerox Star?), as well as when I completed a six-week internship with The Ottawa Citizen —where we used a markup language that was different from HTML—but I didn't own my own computer until I was in university, in 1990. And that computer used Windows 3.0. My first experience with a Macintosh computer was in 1987, after graduation from journalism school, when I worked at The Low Down to Hull and Back News , in Wakefield. It was the first time I used a mouse and because this type of computer was so new to me, I just focused on using it how our publisher had shown me, and that was it. I didn’t use the computer for anything else. I only worked at The Low Down for a few months, so my memories with an Apple computer are brief. It wasn...
