I have my old laptop from uni that has windows 95 on it and it wasn't colour, does that count? I remember I was one of the first few people to have a laptop and I tried bringing it to class to take notes and the stares and the sound of typing was too distracting, today I am sure it would be more odd to take notes on paper with a biro!
I'm still amazed by my phone being such a powerful computer. It makes me wonder what technology actually exists already, as they say the military usually has tech that is 25 years ahead of what is released.
You know, plasma TV's for example existed from the early 80's (very expensive), but it wasn't until the early 2000's that they became popular (for a while, until LCD TV took over) with the advent of HDTV. The cellphone was invented in 1973, and only got mainstream in the late 90's. Even when the laser was invented in the 50's, nobody could find any application for it... today, we can't imagine our technologies without lasers! It's all about usefulness at the right time.
It's so true. Right now I currently am still using windows 7 as it is my preferred choice :)
Wait until you upgrade the hardware :(