Thanks for posting this. I can kind follow it. I can’t imagine what it must be like for someone who has no idea what all the data means.
It caught my eye as my husband and I had a computer hardware business in the 90's. We built our own pc's custom for our customers, mostly programmers and graphics artists.
Bought our first 8088, a clone in about '82, a clone of an IBM, 2 8" floppys, and I think 286k in memory? Everyone we knew wanted one, so we became a dealer and started selling them. We liked the open architecture of the PC verses the Mac, later we built our systems, to easily upgrade with more memory and a faster processor. We went through the 286, the 386 and the 486 chips and thought AMD was superior to Intel in every way.
In the early nineties we took our system to the Microsoft labs so they could test it with the new version of software they were releasing. They give the different hardware manufacturers a certain routine to run to see how fast it is. Ours finished 8 hours before the others, they thought it was broken, turned out it was just very fast, every Microsoft NT programmer brought one from us after hearing about it!!!
Nerds.