Hi Shaun,
you were lucky. In my day Windows didn't exist. At least not on the IBM 
platform. There was the X-Windows system for Unix servers, but on IBM 
systems we had good old MS Dos. Since my parents couldn't afford an IBM 
we had an Apple A2-J running Apple Works.
I still remember how primitive the Apple Works os was. you inserted this 
big 5.25 inch floppy disk into the drive, and from the command prompt 
you used the run command to launch programs on the disk. If memory 
serves me correctly edit opened text files the same way it does on MS 
Dos. Great for doing homework, playing some games like Orig an Trail, 
etc but crap compared to what kids run today.
I didn't get an IBM until 1993 or so and by then the IBM i386 systems 
were out with Windows 3.1 and MS Dos 6.x. That was a major leap forward 
in technology for me, but still ain't nothing to write home about 
compared to this laptop I am using right now.



shaun everiss wrote:
> oh man.
> I never knew he was that yung either.
> lets see at 12 I was only just on my first windows computer.
> didn't know a thing what to do.


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