Our departments just got a new development manager. Since he is going to be supervising us, we decided it was important to break him in right. One of the things he had mentioned in the job interview was how important it was for a company as heavily into Internet technology as ours was to keep up with the latest technology.

So his first day on the job he found on his desk an Executive lunchbox Osbourn -- running on CPM, fully loaded with VisiCalc, WordStar and a 300 Baud Modem...