>Plus, tech was not controlled by large corporations as it is now. Back then there were many small hardware/software vendors competing and in many cases helping

>Plus, tech was not controlled by large corporations as it is now. Back then there were many small hardware/software vendors competing and in many cases helping each other advancing. Now, everything is vanilla and controlled by Large Corps. Yes. My mother’s first computer was made by a company in Northern Kentucky called Thoroughbred Computers. It was tremendously expensive but locally made.