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p style=”text-align: left;”>I like the movie “Blade Runner”. I’ve read Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep“, on which the movie is based.
So what does this have to do with anything? Well, I’ve been around the industry for some time. I’ve added and swapped out devices in desktop computers…printers, modems, hard drives (watch those jumpers!), RAM. I’ve installed and re-installed operating systems, and I still have installation disks for Windows XP, MS/DOS 3.0, Windows 3.1, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
In the early ’90s, my first computer was a 386SX. If you wanted to print stuff, you had to purchase a printer and a printer card, get them set up, and connect the printer to the connector on the printer card, on the back of the computer. The same was true for modems. I started off with BBSs, CompuServe, Prodigy, and then AOL. Before heading off to graduate school on the west coast, I got a copy of a SLIP/PPP dial up script that ran AT commands against the modem to negotiate a TCP connection; connecting to the raw Internet was a whole new world!
I was in graduate school (on active duty) when the SATAN scanner, and OS/2 Warp 3.0 were released. I went to Frye’s Electronics i
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