Comment by smm11

3 years ago

About 15 years ago I had a neighbor who had worked at our local sprawling Bell mothership years before I met him. He was retired at maybe 45, and could talk Fortran until my ears bled.

This was pre-smart-phone, but dude did not have Internet access either. The PC at his house I managed to spot one day I was helping move furniture around was a mid-80s "Turbo" button nondescript 486 box. He had a VCR he'd tape NFL games on, but would wait until they started to press "record."

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icedchai  3 years ago

I never knew anybody who actually programmed their VCR, either. My family was an 'early adopter' and had one of the first VHS models released back in the 80's.

Are you sure you aren't exaggerating? 486's weren't released until 1989. Almost nobody actually had one until the early 90's.