Inferior machines
Les Orchard: I see that Mark Pilgrim has posted a picture of himself as a kid, working at an Apple //e. Based on what I wrote this past Summer about being Newly Digital in 1983, I would guess that around the same time I was working on a Commodore 64, and I would have teased him in a relentlessly geeky way about his clearly inferior machine.
Bah. In 1983, I was working on a 3033. (16 MB RAM, 4.7 MIPs).
Of course, this probably could have been replaced with a Palm Pilot Tungsten W...