**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:05

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:05

Remember when you had to go to a store to plunk down some serious cash to get something like a C compiler and an editor?

I wondered if that was still true so I checked Microcenter's site. The closest approximation was some web design software.

**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01@mastodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:08

**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01@mastodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 11:08

EMACS came out in 1976
gcc came out in 1987

**Coffee & Aspirin** @deejoe · Jun 20, 2018, 18:43

**Coffee & Aspirin** @deejoe · Jun 20, 2018, 18:43

Hey everybody, raise your hand if ran emacs or gcc on a home computer, even as late as 1987 ...

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 19:03

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney@octodon.social · Jun 20, 2018, 19:03

@deejoe @hhardy01 I was still using Atari Basic on an 8-bit machine in 1987.

**Coffee & Aspirin** @deejoe · Jun 20, 2018, 19:06

**Coffee & Aspirin** @deejoe · Jun 20, 2018, 19:06

I'd gotten my first taste of VMS around then.

But yeah, anyone running this stuff at home until the mid 90s was unusual enough to be the exception that proves the rule.

**Coffee & Aspirin** @deejoe · 2018-06-20T19:06:42Z

Coffee & Aspirin @deejoe

Hell, even then it was unusual.