Re: X-files goof.Color laptops in 1989 dream on!

[Bible John <john.doggett@x-files.gov>]

In article <1c473$42c1ba58$d52e19e3$30599@news.chello.nl>,
 dion_b <dion_b@nospam.no> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Yes thats exactly what the school did.  It was not until 1996 that I 
actually used a PC running a version of Windows, and it was not at my 
school.  I graduated from all three of the schools in the district, 
being the K-5 school, the K-7 school, and the 8-12 High School, and 
never used a PC that ran Windows.  I used Windows 3.11 for the first 
time in 1996, and was not very impressed when you compared it to Mac OS 
7.5 of the time.

> Kind of reminds me of Plato's simile of the cave-dwellers...

Yes very accurate of my situation. 

John

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