after Win 3.11 computers stopped being so "lovable"?
Playing on the BBS gave me this thought. Moden computers are more useful, but they just don't have that charn...
Well, I get the feeling that Mac OS X machines will have a lot of charm when they're obsolete in the future. It's all about nostalgia and pining for the days gone by. Anything currently in production is common and boring. Everything gets cooler when it's old, except, perhaps, milk. But then there's sour cream...
I kinda miss Windows 3.11 in some ways, and in others, I don't. I never really used it for anyhing serious (stayed mostly in DOS) until I got a computer powerful enough for some decent multitaksing. At that point I actually ran my BBS from Windows 3.11 and used its multitasking abilities to play around with a second node (that wasn't hooked to a phone line). A year or so later, though, I switched to Windows 95. But in Win 3.11 I played Inner Space and other games, used Microsoft Works for word processing, and did some primitive graphics editing with Paint Shop Pro 2.0. The machine had a non-Intel 486 DX4-120 processor and 8 or 16 megs or RAM, which I thought was screaming. But my dad's new Pentium 100 soon ate my breakfast.
Unfortunately, that's really the only computer I've ever owned that I nolonger have. I sold it to my dad's company for $100 after I got a newer one, which was actually a good price at the time. Oh well.
