PCs have changed a lot

[jswordy]

Just lit it up

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IMP, that is the best PC OS ever made. I was so sad then they quit support, and kept mine going for years afterward. Then I sold out to the Dark Side, lol...

 

[Sage]

I did almost a full mod on one. I'm not done with it, to cold out, but it a good start. Not very good double action . Could use some sight adjustments too.

 

[dgarzaniti]

When I bought the Gateway 2000 mentioned above in '93, I was gung-ho to get that modem screaming, Spent a lot of time the first month on aol.com. Then the $440 phone bill came. BellSouth company even called me to be sure it was correct. I honestly said yes and paid up for my mistake. Back then, dialing in and forgetting about time spent online was expensive where I lived!

In my profession, journalism, I went through college using a typewriter, then at my first job we had a proprietary system where the machines did their functions by using a 7" floppy. They were not interfaced; you had to move the floppy from machine to machine in the publishing process. Then the next job went backwards – back to a typewriter and typesetters entering that copy on computers. Then the next job, which I took in '93, was networked. But I still filed remote stories by modem through an 800 number and a Tandy laptop. Very limited but I doubt a more rugged computer has ever been built. I still have one that the company surplussed and let me keep.

When on site was warranted, I used an Compaq Luggable back in the MCI days, tote that scope prior to that, good times...

 

[back2it]

Ahh, ventilation, always a good thing.

 

[winemaker81]

It's an industry trend, saw it at Cisco. Feature velocity over performance. Concerns regarding System/Hardware requirements were minimized "Customers will just need to upgrade to X.Y.Z to run this release".

It's not just companies. On a tech forum, someone complained about the system requirements for Win11, and that MS blocked older computers from installing it. One response was, "Why don't you buy a computer that can run Win11?"

My response was, "I don't buy new hardware to run new software I don't need." I didn't get a response ...