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Set up in 1994 and never once put online

A tower PC running Windows 3.1, on display at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Not the one in the story.
A tower PC running Windows 3.1, on display at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Not the one in the story. Photo: Jason Scott, CC BY 2.0. The real one is in the original post.

Nothing on this desk has changed since 1994. The PC runs Windows 3.1 and has never been connected to the internet. Its owner, a grandmother who keeps an iPhone for the newer stuff, uses it for Word and Excel. There's plenty more installed, graphic design software included, but writing and printing are its job. Her grandchild was three when she bought it and played a first computer game on it, and made pictures in Paintbrush. That grandchild says the keyboard beats any mechanical one, for the long key travel and the clatter.

The tower sits behind the desk, out of the photo.

Retold from a post on r/vintagecomputing. Read the original

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