Vintage66

It’s 1986. I am in the military overseas and work the swing shift. It’s quiet at 2 a.m. A handful of staff and enlisted personnel are keeping the mission on track. On a table is an IBM XT computer. Amber monitor, two 5.25" floppy drives, no hard drive. 64K of RAM. This is where my life in technology was born. It’s 2026. I am sitting at work looking at two laptops, both connected to a 32" widescreen, curved HD monitor via a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse). One laptop is connected to the work…

I was in high school in the early 1980s. History was an afterthought even then. My history teacher was mainly the soccer coach. I am sure he had a degree in something, but I am not sure it was history. That has always seemed to be the running theme: the history teacher didn’t need to know history. The problem wasn’t that he didn’t care. The problem was that the school handed the subject to whoever had an open period, and that decision says everything about what they thought the subject was…