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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8429244" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Most TT gamers I knew DID have computers in the late 1980s. My house had 3 in 1982... An Adam, a Kaypro II, and my TS1000... ok, the TS1000 was almost useless... and I couldn't get Appleworks onto the Adam. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In 1987,&nbsp; most everyone I was gaming with had a computer in home. Many had, like me, a decent 8-bit machine in home. (even as 16 and 32 bit machines were becoming available.) Fewer of those would have had a spreadsheet; I had one on the Kaypro and on the Apple //e I got in 1986. In 1981, I only had 2 friends with computers at home. By 1985, most of my friends had one; not having a computer in home was unusual amongst my TT gamer friends.By 1987, most of my friends had computers. 1989 supposedly had&nbsp; about 15% of households having computers, and about 49% of households having under-18's...&nbsp; None of my friends were jocks, tho'. Musicians, computer geeks, and gamers. And lots of overlap.Most of us didn't game in the rooms where the computers were, however... I was doing most of my written prep for games on computer only by about 1990... before I encountered Enforcers.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.statista.com/statistics/184685/percentage-of-households-with-computer-in-the-united-states-since-1984/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.statista.com/statistics/242074/percentages-of-us-family-households-with-children-by-type/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8429244, member: 6779310"] Most TT gamers I knew DID have computers in the late 1980s. My house had 3 in 1982... An Adam, a Kaypro II, and my TS1000... ok, the TS1000 was almost useless... and I couldn't get Appleworks onto the Adam. ;) In 1987, most everyone I was gaming with had a computer in home. Many had, like me, a decent 8-bit machine in home. (even as 16 and 32 bit machines were becoming available.) Fewer of those would have had a spreadsheet; I had one on the Kaypro and on the Apple //e I got in 1986. In 1981, I only had 2 friends with computers at home. By 1985, most of my friends had one; not having a computer in home was unusual amongst my TT gamer friends. By 1987, most of my friends had computers. 1989 supposedly had about 15% of households having computers, and about 49% of households having under-18's... None of my friends were jocks, tho'. Musicians, computer geeks, and gamers. And lots of overlap. Most of us didn't game in the rooms where the computers were, however... I was doing most of my written prep for games on computer only by about 1990... before I encountered Enforcers. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.statista.com/statistics/184685/percentage-of-households-with-computer-in-the-united-states-since-1984/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.statista.com/statistics/242074/percentages-of-us-family-households-with-children-by-type/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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