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 – 1.9.12
1. Halley’s Comet – I was eight in 1986, when the Halley’s Comet craze was all over the place. I caught the fever and was obsessed by it. I went to the same planetarium show about a dozen times, would write (unassigned) reports on it, and woke up a few early mornings to try and see it with my dad. I checked out all the books my school library had on it, and was just reminiscing about some of the awesome covers they had:
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