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Different contexts. Uptake in homes was swift. I had a home computer in 1982. But my comment was about computers in offices. Businesses change slowly. Equipmen

Different contexts. Uptake in homes was swift. I had a home computer in 1982. But my comment was about computers in offices. Businesses change slowly. Equipment doesn't get replaced on a whim. It has to be amortized and there's tax thingies that mean business equipment lifecycles are 3 to 5 years, minimum.

13of40 4y ago
That's a good point. We had computers in our homes a lot of the time, and in schools I believe they were subsidized by tech companies like Apple. The 80s and 90s businesses that I got to see basically had antiquated mainframes and mini computers. The Army had PCs for office use, but the field equipment was VAX or (in the case of our anti-aircraft radar) some obscure form of Unix. That said, you still couldn't swing a cat without bumping it into a CRT.