Um…. This strip is from 1986….yes, this was before Amazon… and before most people had heard of the internet…. but let’s not get carried away!
Businesses that could spend several thousand dollars had computers like this 1985 Dell:
They mostly ran in CPM or DOS, maybe Microsoft, maybe a competing one…some even had Windows 1
In 1985, my nephew, a couple of years older than Michael in this strip, begged for a computer for Christmas…. The family got one to share….a Commodore 64.In 1986 I bought my first home computer… a Commodore 128,
Commodores cost a few hundred, not thousands…. and ran their own software, neither windows nor Dos…No modem, so of course no internet…. which barely existed anyway….
I was thrilled. But within a few years, I wanted a computer that ran “real” programs…and by the early 90’s I was going to the library to get on the internet, on a blue screen with white text and no pictures.
Leslie Barks….
Um…. This strip is from 1986….yes, this was before Amazon… and before most people had heard of the internet…. but let’s not get carried away!
Businesses that could spend several thousand dollars had computers like this 1985 Dell:
They mostly ran in CPM or DOS, maybe Microsoft, maybe a competing one…some even had Windows 1
In 1985, my nephew, a couple of years older than Michael in this strip, begged for a computer for Christmas…. The family got one to share….a Commodore 64.In 1986 I bought my first home computer… a Commodore 128,
Commodores cost a few hundred, not thousands…. and ran their own software, neither windows nor Dos…No modem, so of course no internet…. which barely existed anyway….
I was thrilled. But within a few years, I wanted a computer that ran “real” programs…and by the early 90’s I was going to the library to get on the internet, on a blue screen with white text and no pictures.