After an exceedingly productive day, Greg came down and told me, “Go rest for a little while.” Which of course means the first thing I think to do is sit down at my desk, with its mounds of paperwork and half-done projects. SUPER RESTFUL.
I started pawing through my Netflix account to see what we had coming, and I found out that you could get the original Beverly Hills 90210 on dvd. Not only that, you could WATCH IT INSTANTLY. Goodbye paperwork, hello nostalgia.
I didn’t even have to get through the opening credits to find myself entertained. While the theme song plays, we’re treated to scenes of students arriving at the school, complete with dozens of shots of BMWs (it’s like they’re trying to make a point), and of course, this example of cutting edge portable computing in 1990:
I’m pretty sure that laptop is BIGGER THAN ANY LAP. My Mom had a sewing machine that folded up into a case smaller than this. Greg’s first comment was, “I had one of those!”, but then he added that his was actually a lot bigger. “More suitcase-shaped.” Microsoft had given it to him as a work computer. In 1992.
What I especially love is that I took the screenshot with my new 3G iPhone, which I then instantly emailed to my Flickr account. My, how things have changed since 1990.
That is a big laptop. I don’t remember laptops being “suitcase-shaped” in 1992… Was it a desktop replacement or something similar. In 1993 I remember taking a laptop to school it was a 386 25mhz pc (I was in the 6th grade at the time) and it was about twice the thickness of todays laptops but not that size.
I’m not sure – while Greg was working at Microsoft in ’92, I was graduating High School, unaware that my future soulmate was 150 miles north working on a computer I would later mock in a blog post. I’m guessing it was a desktop replacement of sorts.