Microsoft’s got a pretty stellar track record of terrible Windows infomercials. Some for the consumer, some internal, all pretty rough. This 1988 video showcases Windows/386, a fairly impressive upgrade to Windows that introduced multitasking among other features. The impressiveness of the upgrade does not come through in this video. What begins as a dry-but-corny corporate…
Five Things – 1.16.12
1. Intellivision – We were an Atari family growing up, but I was always so jealous of my friends who had an Intellivision. I’m not sure if it was the superior gaming technology that made me want it so much as the form factor and design.
The system looks like it was yanked out of the main console of that spaceship in Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. …