> With an IBM XT 286, on the other hand, it was all in my face. Earlier in the pre-PC age, for the hobbyists you had similar experiences with home computers li

> With an IBM XT 286, on the other hand, it was all in my face. Earlier in the pre-PC age, for the hobbyists you had similar experiences with home computers like Tandy RadioShack, ZX spectrum, Commodore Vic-20 or 64, not to mention the Amigas and Ataris (and all the others I’m old enough to have forgotten). Early Macs also let you mess around (and mess up) your system too. It was an exciting time in computing indeed, but it did in no way start with the PC.