Give a man a fish and feed him for a day....Teach him to use the internet and he won't bother you for weeks!
The recent twenty-fifth anniversary of the IMB PC wasn't that big a deal, except that it gave us a chance to get nostalgic about our computing past. Although I almost bought a Timex/Sinclair, I wound up waiting for the "more sophisticated" Windows 3.0 interface until I let the computer bug bite again.