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> article more than anything shows the attitude the world had about computers in general. Which is that computers are for serious business people. That was the
by brandonmenc 11y ago
> article more than anything shows the attitude the world had about computers in general. Which is that computers are for serious business people.
That was the attitude in 1965, but not in 1985 - the home computer market was already in full swing by then. The C64, Macintosh, PCjr, etc were all out before 1985.
"Laptops" were huge and heavy to the point of being portable desktop machines, and they all required an AC outlet to do anything more than like, an hour of work.
- chipsy 11y agoEven in 1985, the applications were only sort of there. You had word processing and spreadsheets and a few other office apps. After that, the only things left for consumers were programming, education and games. And in 1985, games were "over" because early hype had died down and the console market crashed. Media apps weren't there yet: the first Mac was a year old, and the Amiga appeared mid-way through the year. A lot of what made computers part of people's lifestyle was networking, and that only hit mass adoption in the 90's.