Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

Daily writing prompt
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

I was working in the finance division of Burdines Department Stores when the IBM-PC was announced. I had been working with a System 34 and immediately saw my future. This was around 1981.

Here is what I was doing at the time.

The head of our DP department said there would be no need for PC’s because you couldn’t do anything with them. So I left

Within months, I was working for the largest Independent PC store in the country and balls-deep into the world of PCs.

It was the biggest open door to opportunity that I’ve seen in my whole life. I knew there was a huge future, and I was about to get in on the ground floor at the very beginning. I started with CPM on Apple II and DOS 1.0 on the PC.

They weren’t ubiquitous back then. I learned more by fixing them and figuring out why they crashed than almost everyone I knew.

The other decision I view as one of my best is to not take the COVID-19 jab. While everyone pressured me to get it, I held my ground. To this day, I don’t regret it and never have to worry about what they put into it. You can never get un-jabbed.

The Original Press Release for the IBM PC in 1981

At 4 pages (typed on a typewriter), here is the original Press Release for the IBM PC from 1981.  Judge for yourself the writing style.

At $4500, you could get a fully configured 64k PC with 2 360k floppy disk drives and a small dot matrix printer.  Such a deal.  I’m pretty sure that there are wristwatches with more computing power available now.