30 yrs. ago

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 2021-08-14 16:46, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
>> There were many of us who said that it was the END of the era.  And 
>> that in a few years, more that half of the personal computers would 
>> be PC, or imitations thereof.
>>
>
> Yep.  It ushered in the era of billions of identical x86 shitboxen. :(

I recall attending a demo of the PC at IBM Toronto.  About 40 of us in 
the room.  Notable was that the presenter chose slides with a light-pen 
on his (non-PC) screen.

N.