My First Computer-Leading Edge

My First Computer

by Patricia Rice

In the 1980s, rural America was not a guiding light of technology. I distinctly remember a university club meeting where the speaker told us about the wonders of household computers. When quizzed on what on earth we would do with one, the speaker told us it would be marvelous for filing recipes.

At the time, I was a CPA and a budding novelist. I’d been writing my books on an old Underwood using white-out and carbon paper. After I sold my first novel, I graduate...