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Though what didn't suck in the 80s/90s from a computer user experience perspective?

Terminals connected to minicomputers--which is what I used at work through most of that period? DOS-based word processing and spreadsheets were pretty nice by comparson.

Macs? They were fine in the mid-80s although I didn't use them in school unless my group was using them for some project.

Unix workstations were getting pretty nice by the mid-90s but those weren't something for a home user.




Amiga is famous for being loved by it's users in the 80s. I think Apple II users and Commodore 64 users kind of loved them too.

But expectations were much lower then, computers were expected to be a thing for a 'hobbyist' to tinker with, and those who did generally did it because they loved it.

(I still don't think what were then called "PCs" running MS-DOS or (beginning in 1985) Windows were as beloved as Amiga or Commodore 64 though, Microsoft-OS PCs were for "business", and nobody really loved them).

(Macintosh was first sold in 1984, so mid-80s was the first Macintosh).




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