Thirty years ago, I was twelve, and just coming to the IBM PC from the Tandy CoCo 3. The Rainbow magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_(magazine)

Thirty years ago, I was twelve, and just coming to the IBM PC from the Tandy CoCo 3. The Rainbow magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_(magazine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_(magazine)) ceased publication that year, which I was very bummed about. At that early age, coming from the CoCo (which booted straight into a BASIC interpreter in less than a second) the thing that wierded me out the most about DOS was that it was not a REPL or interpreter for any language. It felt really weird to have to start up GWBASIC or QBASIC separately. I did eventually get used to it though. Not long after this I called Microsoft on the phone somehow, deepened my voice as far as it would go to sound older, and got myself signed up as a beta tester for Windows 95.