When I left for college in 1997 I had a a laptop, but other than taking up less room in the car, it was a desktop. A 486slc/33 with, I want to say, 4mb of ram and a 200mb hard drive. If ran Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1.
I was over the moon to get the all clear to replace it with a K6/200 tower with 32mb of ram and a 2.1 gb hard drive. Freaking GIGABYTES man!
By the time I started law school five years later I needed a laptop (a lilac colored magnesium P3 Sony that was a bit long in the tooth when I got it from some overstock site but was built like a brick shithouse). It ran Win ME, which was less miserable than you may have heard, but was indeed pointless and buggy. WiFi was a brand new addition to most of the campus, and we all had various antennas sticking out of our PC cards slots.
When I left for college in 1997 I had a a laptop, but other than taking up less room in the car, it was a desktop. A 486slc/33 with, I want to say, 4mb of ram and a 200mb hard drive. If ran Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1.
I was over the moon to get the all clear to replace it with a K6/200 tower with 32mb of ram and a 2.1 gb hard drive. Freaking GIGABYTES man!
By the time I started law school five years later I needed a laptop (a lilac colored magnesium P3 Sony that was a bit long in the tooth when I got it from some overstock site but was built like a brick shithouse). It ran Win ME, which was less miserable than you may have heard, but was indeed pointless and buggy. WiFi was a brand new addition to most of the campus, and we all had various antennas sticking out of our PC cards slots.