From: "tim....." 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:27:44 +0100


"PC Paul"  wrote in message 
news:GYLWh.5468$Ro3.444@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> tim..... wrote:
>> "Tim"  wrote in message
>> news:S-idnQ7MEsILHLbbRVnyvwA@bt.com...
>>>> Graham Murray wrote
>>>> ... The IBM PC was launched in 1981,
>>>> 26 years ago. Windows was later than that,
>>>>
>>> "Magda" wrote
>>>> 1992, I think.
>>>
>>> Don't be silly! - Win3.1 was already out by then.
>>> Windows v1 was out in the '80s...
>>
>> But OE wasn't
>>
>> I worked on Windows 2 apps in 1990.
>>
>> They were very basic and few people actually
>> had machines which could run them.
>>
>> I was first introduced to usenet in Sept 1993. The
>> people that I worked with read messages with
>> a command line interface.  I though that this
>> was much too fiddly and didn't bother
>
> Google Groups archive (which used to belong to DejaNews) has messages back 
> to (at least) May 1981 when there were already quite a wide variety of 
> groups on Usenet.
>
> Byte magazine had an article on the 'upcoming' Windows 1.0 in December 
> 1983. I *believe* Windows 1.0 was in 1985.
>
> Point'n'drool interfaces took a while to take off - and there was a 
> thriving community well before that.
>
> The higher intellectual cost-of-entry acted as a useful limit to who 
> managed to get on there.

IME the users were people who had access at work,
and had nothing better to do whilst at work.

Though there was probably a group of people who had
access at college, and nothing better to do whilst at
college.

tim