PCs - 1980 to 1994

In the late 80s and early 90s personal computers started to become mainstream. Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) had the vision of putting a computer on every desk in every home and every office. This was delivered through the mainstream adoption of operating systems such as MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.

This period also made mainstream the "LAN", or "Local Area Network". Way before the internet came commonplace it was ambitious to have a local area network which connected all your office / school / home computers together on a network with a centralised server. To demonstrate this we use a Netware 4.11 server to connect most of our PCs from this era which was the leading server platform in the day.