Here's my 3rd world country perspective, from someone growing in the 80s: We never had intel chips. They were expensive. I had a Texas Instruments 286 and a c

Here's my 3rd world country perspective, from someone growing in the 80s: We never had intel chips. They were expensive. I had a Texas Instruments 286 and a cyrix 486 years later. The computer in my Dad's office were all "pc compatible" . This was a university (biology department in a God forsaken poor small city in Mexico). Someone got it bought because it was going to "change the world" (oh boy). We played TDCGA.EXE and PRINCE.EXE from its 2 51/4 floppy drives. No HDD. We heard about apple's, commodore's and other crazy computers, but they were for "gringos" or rich people. At the same time, we shared (pirated) software as if there was no tomorrow. Spread like wildfire. As and played the heck out of ID shareware. Then you had the Mexican middle upper class: whose dad bought Macintosh one of those others. They NOW had to spend all this money to get it to do something (buy software). Nobody was pirating/sharing programs, and the PC ones just didn't work. So a virtuous cycle continued and we kept buying x86. Great memories! I'm glad I was part of that dawn of PC.