13 Oct
2007
13 Oct
'07
9:15 p.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
Am I the only one who never got into 286 systems (my
1st pc in the late 80's
was a Packard Bell 286/12)?
I didn't either. 808x had about as long a run of usefulness as the
other popular/surviving home computers at the time (I'm thinking Apple
II, C64, Mac classic here), which was about 8 years. As to why that is,
I'm still trying to hammer out theories (additional ones are welcome),
such as "the home computer software industry moved at a slower pace back
then" or "computers cost so much back then that people expected them to
last", etc.
I got an 808x in December 1984 and used it until December of 1990, when
it was replaced by an 80386sx-16 with VGA. So I bypassed the 80286 era
as well.
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