Blind community 20 years later

[Travis Siegel]

Oh come on, how can you possibly say we've gone nowhere.  In 1986, I  
was using a 4.77MHZ XT machine with 256K quickly upgraded to 640K,  
dos 3.3 (I think) and a 20MB hd, 1 5.25 floppy drive, and an 84-key  
keyboard.  I could actually use 90% of the programs on the machine,  
though some of them required a few gymnastics to make them work.
Now, I've got a storage shed full of computers ranging from XT up to  
Pentium 2 machines.  2 laptops on my desk (one with an hd that needs  
an os reinstalled, and 1 with win2K on it) A desktop machine running  
win98, a tower running linux, a mac mini maxed out with 10.4.6 on it,  
1GB of ram, 80GB hd, 250GB external hd, and let's see, about 75% of  
the programs are usable out of the box, and roughly 80-85% can be  
made to work with some gymnastics.
So, you say nothing's changed.  I beg to differ.  I can do just as  
much as I did before (actually more, because the computer does it  
faster now)
Plus now I have the ability to make my computer do absolutely nothing  
millions of times faster than it ever would have been possible 20  
years ago.  Not to mention, I could copy my 20MB hd onto this 80GB hd  
4 thousand times, and I can even waste more space due to cluster size  
on my hd than my original one even had to start with.  Not to mention  
all the wonderfully complex graphical resolutions that exist now.   
320X200 could fit on my 1024X768 screen a few times with room to  
spare, and I can do all of this without the aid of any additional  
hardware, just what ships with my little miniMac.  Try doing that in  
1986.