1986
It was the year that The Hacker Manifesto was written, Halley's Comet was in the skies, the Chernobyl reactor disaster occurred, and the Voyager aircraft did the first round-the-world flight without refueling. The year started on an auspicious note on January 14 with the introduction of the Mac Plus.
At the time, this was a heck of a computer. 1 MB of RAM (kids, that IS correct -- one megabyte) that could be expanded to 4 MB, a single 800 KB floppy disk drive, and a SCSI port. The SCSI port allowed the M
