My First Computer

I got my first computer aged 22 (or maybe 21) when I bought it. It had a 286 CPU, and 1 MB of RAM (that was more than the standard 640 of the day, and you had to fiddle so that programs could use it - memory above 640k had to be decreed as extended or expanded, and not all programs could use both), it ran at 16 MHz, and had a 40 MB hard disk.
Today, we bought computers for the boys. None of this VTech business. We got a Panasonic Toughbook, and an IBM Thinkpad. Although we paid $300 for the pair, from an ad on CraigsList. Partly this is because it's good for their development and stuff, but mostly because it means that when we want to (say) check our email: (a) We'll be able to find the Firefox icon - it won't have been moved, deleted, renamed, or disappeared off the screen because it's been changed into a resolution that my first computer would have been able to run, and (b) there won't be a little voice next to us saying "I want 'puter games".
Photo on the left shows the new (to us) 'puters. Notice that a toy mobile cell phone has been sellotaped scotch taped to the screen of one of them. Maybe that's (c) - there won't be grubby fingers all over the screens of our 'puters.