The raaaape of PC
I "grew up" at least into the computing world of PC on DR DOS. Then forced by MegeShiz to use the MS OS because a change in the kernel blocked DRDOS from executing programs written only for MS DOS. MSDOS had dozens of revisions attempting to do what DRDOS did for PCs. IF memory serves me MS had 26 revision to DRDOS's 3 in just one year. I used DRDOS Gem Desktop at least a year before MS purchased the license to use it as the basis to WindNOs. Gem Desktop worked pretty much flawlessly compared to MS first 30 versions of WindNOs. MS corp culture was get it out the door and we will fix it later. Still seems the same when updates roll out and a week later there is a revision to the update. And heaven help you if you have an old machine that just keeps working until that drive failure and MS can't afford to keep the old OS & updates on their servers. I wonder how many are using an XP to run a 20+ year old flatbed scanner because it will still do books, magazines and other large sizes that are more than a standard sheet of paper?
I wonder how many here started with a TRS-80 Color Computer version #1? Hours of writing code to do simple things programs automatically do for you today. Having to go character by character to find an error that did not produce results that the piece of paper next to you showed so clearly what the computer should come up with. First with DOS then the beginning of HTML.. Whole websites built character by character. TG for the porn industry supplying the funds to make better programming programs and drive the need for video card upgrades. Finally small integrated storage devices vs the cassette tapes in an additional large cassette player. How many had to change the backup tape every morning in case there was a server failure that day? Ya I realize a 5 1/4 floppy wasn't small like today's 1+TB hard or USB drives but compared to a pile of cassette tapes holding your precious hours of work they were life savers. How about the 8.3 file naming restriction?