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

["Elgin" <Elgin@yahoo.com>]

I purchased a color laptop in 1992.  It was a 286, and only cost $1800 or 
so.  Yes there were color laptops in 1989, we had a color laptop at work 
that was a 386 in 1989, it cost about $10,000 the way it was configured. 
Lots of RAM and harddrive for the time.

-- 
Richard Cain


"Bible John" <john.doggett@x-files.gov> wrote in message 
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> Watching my new X-files DVD and in one episode which is a flashback to
> 1989 which explained how the Lone Gunman met and got together, and also
> how they met Mulder.  During the episode a color laptop is used which is
> impossible because color laptops did not exist in 1989!  As a matter of
> fact, even color monitors were hard to come bye, and as best I can
> recollect the only color computers in 1989 was the Apple IIgs and
> Macintosh. I heavily used both PC's and Apple's in those days, and
> never used or heard of a color PC, but used plenty of colors apples.
>
> If me and my ibook G4 were to go back in time to that year, my ibook
> would be the most advanced and powerful computer on the planet, yet CC
> makes it look like 1989 PC's could do things that modern computers
> cannot in some of the scenes where Byers is searching through government
> databases.  First in 1989 government databases would not look as nice
> and richly formatted as CC portrays, and second a 1989 government
> database would be accessed via a VT-100 Unix command prompt or shell and
> there would be no such thing as a picture that goes along with a
> government personnel profile! Perhaps CC is not as computer savvy as
> people are led to believe.
>
> Computer experts am I correct?
>
>
> John
>
> -- 
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> Heb. 4:12-For the word of God is living and
> active. Sharper than any double-edged sword,
> it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints
> and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes
> of the heart.