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    Life was better!
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    An IBM like that is on my hit list, very nice!
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    Fondest memories: - Eating late at night, with my brother at the Denny's, so I could show him the Metrowerk's Pascal book I had just...
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    Fondest memories: - Going to the Apple dealer in town and playing with the Macintosh Portable display model. There was no way you...
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    Fondest memories: - Stopping in to work at the the university library computer lab - at least a dozen AT&T PCs (the amber screens were...
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    It was great to be around then - and I miss that time so much. Don't get me wrong, its great to have what's available to us now, but its...
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    And this presented a major problem for society then. They'd ask: "how do I use it?", and the reply: "Whatever you want." would make no...
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    That is, an object's user-interface: the buttons, dials, and levers did specific things that never changed, much like even today's cars...
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    We don't see micros & GUIs for the conceptual leaps they were, because we're used to it, obviously. But one way to understand it is to...
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    For ordinary people, home computers made the biggest impact. Before the late 70s, everything had to be done by hand, at human speeds...
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    I was born in 2001, but man I sure do love 1980s computers! I wish I could go back in time for just a little while and see these...
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    I want to enter "386 enchanted mode."
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    You can have a 486 system with a Pentium in it though.
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    With an Overdrive chip, I suppose that does technically count as a 486 with a Pentium, but that’s still kind of a confusing way to word...
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    WHAT!? That is INSANE! Great work. I love seeing newly-made accelerators for pre-SE/30 compacts.
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