> DW> They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or
> DW> tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use
> DW> PCs at all anymore except at work.
> One of my friends, years later, was running a Dec Alpha system with a
> MIPS RISC chip, back from when Microsoft supported it with NT. I think
> it was running NT Server 3.51? He had IIS running on it and used it as a
> desktop...
> Another caller had an IBM RS/6000 system he still used as a desktop.
Those are some serious computer users. There are folks like that in the
FSX Retro echo, too. Your average person, and people who moved away from
the BBS hobby, probably didn't keep up with the old tech.
My experience may be a little skewed, though. I started out running a BBS,
and getting familiar with the Internet (via Usenet) back when I lived in a
metropolitan area that had a big BBS community. In 1997, I moved to an
area where home PC adaptation, and the Internet, was not a big thing.
There was one BBS in town, run by a government agency.
I worked in an IT shop and was really surprised at how few of my co-workers
had PCs at home.
Many people in this area pretty much skipped the PC at home phase and went
straight to internet via mobile phase.
* SLMR 2.1a * Now... where did I park that hard disk?
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