If memory serves me right, I first saw a computer in 1988, in Grade 9, at my high school in India. I distinctly remember how I and my fellow students were in complete awe of these desktop machines in the school computer lab. Each computer had a fairly large case and a bulky black-and-white cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor connected to it via a thick cable. The footprint of the keyboard connected to the computer case was large too. These computers were dedicated BASIC programming language mach...