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Re: X-files goof.Color laptops in 1989 dream on!
Bible John wrote:
The schools did not have color PC's then, and no home I visited had them
in 1989. But the schools had plenty of Apple IIgs with color monitors.
Its just that Apple was again ahead of the game and I was unaware of the
entire PC world outside of the K-5 school which I was attending, which
had PC's, but not one was in color.
My secondary school also had archaic monochrome 1983-vintage Philips
almost-XT-combatibles in 1989 (in fact it was still using them to
'teach' computing (i.e. MS DOS 3.3) in 1995...), but one would have had
to have had a rather blinkered view of the world of PCs (or Macs) to
have not encountered colour PCs.
Kind of reminds me of Plato's simile of the cave-dwellers...