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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:46:27PM -0500, Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2006 at 17:35, Lee Forrest wrote:
> 
> > Why doesn't that surprise me? I've often thought that computers
> > and the internet have gone downhill since the mid-eighties (since
> > control passed from Academia to Business). Is that when 486's
> > were in general use?
> 
> My first home computer was a Kaypro new 2, late 1984.
> 
> Then others including Kaypros, Epson QX-10, Televideo, ??
> 
> In 1994 I got a 486-33 DX with VLB slots, as well as short and long?  ISA 
> slots?
> 
> And I had the dealer install a bigger hard drive, 340Mb.
> 
> It had a 360Kb 5-1/4" floppy drive as well as a 3-1/2" one.

I can tell from your post here, and Sindi's, that my timeline
was off by a lot. :-\

But keep in mind that I'm talking about Unix, not DOS/Windows
etc. Working computers, not entertainment computers.

Lee