23 Jan
2012
23 Jan
'12
4:51 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
I think part of the problem I'm hitting is that people really have no
concept of age; they don't know the difference between a 486 PC and a much
newer machine running at several 2GHz - if it's more than a couple of years
old, it's just an "old, slow computer" to them.
When I mention to j-random-public that I am
interested in old
computers, I add 'And that doesn't mean 486 PCs'.
"486 PCs"? People now think that an old computer is a Pentium 4 or Core
2. The 486 must have been something used by the ancient Egyptians.