FIRST 50 years ago / 50 years from now.

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Missed my edit. I had access to the PDP-11 at the age of 5. My friend Justin's Father worked for Xerox he had access to an early WYSIWYG protoype by age 6.

You could go to IBM school while nearly high school age and I had friends with mainframe access at Universities over modems.

So while many schools may not have had physical hardware: even Sage used phone lines to close the gap between the hardware location on the user.

Well, thanks for the explanation, and that's very interesting. Is there a chance your friend got to use the Xerox Alto?