Nostalgia :)

Used to write COBOL programs using a terminal that was connected to a mainframe far away! Slow and clunky.

Saw my first PC on a Novell Network in 1987 - in college. QuickBasic was my favorite those days - could do tons of stuff - light up any pixel on the monitor (CGA?) - learn to program the dot-matrix-printer to print Indian language characters - Oh, it was fun!

Yup, Borland products was the in-thing then.

I used to devour PC-Magazine with the reviews and new products.

What has changed? Tons of stuff - Frameworks, Virtualization - many, many layers above!

RAM - the computer I had in 1983 had 3.5K of RAM (Commodore Vic-20). The computer I am typing this on has 16GB of RAM.

This, along with attendant improvements in storage - no more magnetic tapes, thank goodness - and improvements in speed is the big change I see.

Sure there are touch devices and spangly UIs, but from a developer's perspective it's all still on the command-line, right? ;-)

Well :D I will go for PCS and not starting to talk about sinclairs/amiga/ataris/c64s :D ....

• EDO RAM 8MB which had to be used in pairs
• P60 with a turbo button
• HD with 32MBs (still got some)
• EISA slots
• PS/2 is gone everything is usb
• Serial COM ports are rare and mainly for hardware programming
• Needle printers :D epson LQ100 i had to leave the room to not go crazy :D ...
• Novel Netware with IPX connections to play duke nukem 3d via serial comport "network"
• Novel Netwars !! :D

i can go on :D but I want others to have some fun as well :D