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Value PC
Being the nice son and daughter that me and my sis are, we decided to hook my mom up with a computer. For the record, my mom is the reason I have any semblance of computer skills. She and my dad purchased a 286/16mhz beast of a machine way back in the day for my sister and I. They upgraded that to a 486 and later to a 200mhz pentium before I took over the PC purchasing for the fam damily. She also showed me the ways of DOS and WordPerfect 5.1, and showed me the tao of keyboard shortcuts. She helped me install my first modem, even though she had no clue either. Good times.
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A Toaster Running .NET?
I ran across this article on OS News about Microsoft's partnership with the TRON OS (which is used in billions of electronics devices). Interesting to me was: