I remember buying my first computer during my undergrad in 1991 or 1991. I was tired of going to the college library and signing up for a computer to use with a 2 hour limit if others were waiting. One time the only ones open was a MAC. What fresh hell was that. I had a friend who worked for Microsoft at their helpdesk for businesses. He and I had a chat of my needs, went to Best Buy, I pushed the cart, and he filled it up. He set it up for me and even ran over to his house to get all the Microsoft programs to load. Those were the days. I went from a tower and the montrosity you show here to a simple laptop.
I had one of those computers.... Boy, I'm old!
ReplyDeleteI remember buying my first computer during my undergrad in 1991 or 1991. I was tired of going to the college library and signing up for a computer to use with a 2 hour limit if others were waiting. One time the only ones open was a MAC. What fresh hell was that. I had a friend who worked for Microsoft at their helpdesk for businesses. He and I had a chat of my needs, went to Best Buy, I pushed the cart, and he filled it up. He set it up for me and even ran over to his house to get all the Microsoft programs to load. Those were the days. I went from a tower and the montrosity you show here to a simple laptop.
ReplyDeleteUsed to code in Fortran, Cobol and Basic. Hated finicky card readers. Macs were a revelation compared to MS-DOS imho.
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