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[Geoffrey]

Mark Wright wrote:
> I just thought the XT was far enough back that many people you may  meet 
> under 30 might not even recognize the acronym.
> 
> I did some sys admin for a private school a few years ago and it was  a 
> hoot having student assistants that wanted to learn about  computers.  I 
> try to explain things in a basic way and build up  complexity until the 
> problem is explained.  I had teenagers that were  semi competent on 
> newer wintel technology that didn't have any  background.  Frequently I 
> started to explain why a particular  convention existed in soft or hard 
> ware and had to start with a PC  history lesson to get to the answer.
> 
> The first computer I actually owned was an Atari too.

Well, I guess I got a late start.  Although I've been interested in 
computers for a long time and worked with them in these timeframes, but 
the first computer I actually owned was a pentium 75 running windows 
3.11.  That was sometime around 1994.

It wasn't long after that someone turned me on to Linux and I installed 
slackware, sometime in 1995, I believe.  The ale archives do have some 
of my lame posts in early 1996.  Seems the 1995 archives are not complete.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey