The 20th Anniversary of the PC

I still remember my Uncle Zack was the first person I knew with a “real” IBM PC. It was an XT. I used to program very basic BASIC programs on it and impress my parents. You know, stuff like write my name on the screen forever and things like that.

Well, CNN just had an interview with Harry McCracken, from PC World. You can read it if you want, but it’s not that great or insightful. But what really struck me was this quote from the interviewer:

FRAZIER: Certainly at the 10-year anniversary, I could not use

those computers. They drove me nuts. And you had to do
 things that were counterintuitive, like saving before you 

turned it off or you lost all the work you did, as 

recently as, say,'93 or '94. 

Ummm.. Since when was saving your work before you turned off your computer COUNTERINTUITIVE? And as far as I can tell, you STILL have to save your work before you turn off your computer.