Re:The End of the Googleverse
by jrochkind1 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:25PM
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Amiga is famous for being loved by it's users in the 80s. I think Apple II users and Commodore 64 users kind of loved them too.
But expectations were much lower then, computers were expected to be a thing for a 'hobbyist' to tinker with, and those who did generally did it because they loved it.
(I still don't think what were then called "PCs" running MS-DOS or (beginning in 1985) Windows were as beloved as Amiga or Commodore 64 though, Microsoft-OS PCs were for "business", and nobody really loved them).
(Macintosh was first sold in 1984, so mid-80s was the first Macintosh).
Terminals connected to minicomputers--which is what I used at work through most of that period? DOS-based word processing and spreadsheets were pretty nice by comparson.
Macs? They were fine in the mid-80s although I didn't use them in school unless my group was using them for some project.
Unix workstations were getting pretty nice by the mid-90s but those weren't something for a home user.