When I bought my first computer, a Radio Shack Model I with a cassette recorder for data storage, I was sure I could finally get the definitive handle on my personal finances. Many computers and decades later, I am still seeking that holy grail.
This week's Family Tech reviews the state of managing your finances by computer. And until writing this, I had forgotten I had beta tested the first online banking service, Bank of America (when they really were B of A, not Nations of NC). That was back in 1983 and it was all text/command line driven. Kind of nice; I could write scripts in my terminal software to get the data for me automatically.
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