[HPforGrownups] Re: When

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 179813

Steve wrote:
> As a side note, in the first book, JKR mentions Dudley
> having a Nintendo or Playstation or Gameboy, some 
> computerized game console, but someone pointed out that
> game consoles like that didn't exist at that time. Even
> personal computers in 1991 were relatively primitive by
> todays standards. And I don't recall every little kid,
> much less every adult, having a cell phone in 1991. I think
> the bulk of 'every kid has a cell phone' occurred in the
> 21st century. 

Bart:
	I was doing Internet programming in 1991. The first game consoles came 
out in the early 80's. The IBM PS/2 with microchannel architecture was 
released in 1987. Admittedly Windows NT didn't come out until 1993, but 
I was using a Macintosh in 1986. The i486 (predecessor to the Pentium) 
came out in 1989. Not only was the Nintendo out by 1991, the SUPER 
Nintendo was out by then. There had already been a video console crash 
(in the early 80's and revival. And the Commodore Amiga, which was well 
ahead of its time, was quite mature by 1991.

	Cell phones were not common; one running joke was that the first 
month's bill for virtually every new cell phone owner was $1000.

	Bart