In 1989, I began working for a retail music store in Toronto called Saved By Technology. As the name implies, this was not your typical guitar strings and drum sticks kind of music store. In fact, there were no guitars and no drums to be found. There were however a shit-load of cool computers and MIDI instruments. As well as being an authorized Roland and Korg reseller, SBT was Canada’s first combination music store and Apple Computer dealership.

Needless to say, it wasn’t long before I got my first Macintosh. It was a Mac Plus with 512k of RAM (quickly upgraded to 2.5 MB for a mere $1000). I also got an ‘Apple Crate’ brand 60 MB SCSI hard disk. Even at dealer cost, I paid in excess of $5000 for my first Mac system.

And now I have a phone that is 100 times more powerful and one tenth the price.