Robert Swirsky has been working with personal computers since the beginning, starting with his first computer, a Rockwell AIM-65, in 1977. He quickly upgraded to a Commodore PET 2001.

In the early 80s, Mr. Swirsky wrote numerous articles for computer magazines, including Compute, Creative Computing, Interface Age (for which he wrote the Apple-Icactions column), Kilobaud Microcomputing, and Popular Computing.

Here are a few examples (out of hundreds) of his work from that period: