Early,Nixdorf personal computer

From: James Rice <jrice54_at_charter.net>
Date: Mon Jul 7 15:05:01 2003

To most of the kids in IT today, anything not a t least a P3 is a
"classic" and they have no clue what to do with it. These are the kids
that are being turned out by the MS certification mills. Last week I
had a newly minted MCSE tell me that the "net" command had been
discontinued with DOS. Heaven help me if I had presented her with a
Unix shell.

James

chris wrote:

>>Not exactly an early one ... I guess in a few years they try
>>to sell us 486es as 'early' PCs :)
>>
>>
>
>Why not, a friend of mine that is employeed as a IT manager told me the
>other day about an unlabeled computer he wanted to give me that had
>"antique memory" in it. I was all excited wondering what he might have
>that could be "antique".
>
>It turned out to be a generic Pentium 90 with 72 pin SIMMs!!!
>
>-chris
><http://www.mythtech.net>
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