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points by throwaway2037 1 day ago | 0 comments

You had personal PCs but no network in a dorm?

I'm placing that comment between 1985 and 1993.

Nah. 83 is much too early for everyone having a pc in the dorm room, and well after 1993 for dorms often not having network.

[–] Jtsummers 1 day ago

Depends on the schools for networks. I attended a college that finished adding wired networks to their dorms in 2000 or so. It just wasn't a campus priority in the 90s, fewer students had computers back then. If it was a school with more money or an engineering school they got to it earlier, the rest added it when they added it.

[–] viraptor 20 hours ago

Also depends on the environment. My dad used to repair the pre-PC computers: Amiga, Commodore, Atari, Spectrum, etc. I've had access to them before many others have even seen a computer. I've been given a really heavy, not-completely-broken and usable laptop before they became affordable for normal people.

People who grew up with or lived in the tech environment had access to lots of things.