>>41570
>Before perhaps 1992-1993 buying a family computer meant you weren't low class/lower middle class, but it was common.
Newfag. Our school had a computer room
in the mid '80's. All apple IIe's. Only 1 had a colour monitor. Commodore64 was considered an expensive "games thing". After apple, the Amiga was the biggest
high end competitor to IBM powered computers. The *286 was common. 2 meg of RAM was considered more than enough to run any program in extended memory. The OSes were user unfriendly
for IBM based processors. None of the Plug 'n' Play shit we have now. Unless you could afford a sound card, all you could get was sound through the onboard speaker. If you got a sound card you were required to manual input the IRQs, DMAs and port addresses
for every fucking game Graphics cards were in the flavour of Monochrome, hercules type (grey-scale esssentially), CGA, EGA or VGA (if you wanted a high end system). Games offered the user the choice of graphic options because it had to.
TL;DR the intellgence entry level for computer usage has dropped a shit ton because the more people became interested in computing the easier it had to be to use to allow new users to access technology.