You'd be surprised. Few yesrs back ( mid to late 90s) I worked a small buisness ( co owner) for computer services and repairs and did most of the work on site, not in the shop for home, school and buisness computers.

This is mid 90s mind you had delt with MANY schools, homes an buisnesses still using apples IIEs and even 8088s ( 3 buisnesses I worked with had networked 8088s) many home users had 8088s to 486s rare to even see a normal pentium except for more updated offices or buisnesses that were computer orientated.
And this was around the time of the realy big PUSH by the industry to get the home user into the internet. only 10 years ago


The schools and the home owners many had games for thier machines ( was always a common question why they bought a program or game in a stoe and never ran on thier computer). Working IN the owners homes,schools and buisness for about 7 years. Even the local District Attorny ( who was only in his mid 30s, used a lap top etc) couldn't figure out how to install windows into a clients computer, wnet I was called in to look at it ( the home of fairly big buisness owner), it was an arcaic IBM 8088 with a 5 1/4 floppy drive with a 20 meg 'chittering' IBM Hard drive ( the big black box ones)

because of the BIG internet in the home push of the mid 90s many homes, schools and buisnesses seriously then looked at getting or replacing exisiting computers to become more upto date from mid to late 90s. Only places that have people that keep informed on technology advances and the benfifts of those advantages will keep thier systems updated as possible/budget wise allows. (its why you see more buisnesses/schools with computer trained techs in thier service). You can bet, if you worked in a computer servies buisnees now, the average machine you would see is about a pentium1 grade machine with a tnt2 or equivalent vid card 5-20 gig hard drive 16 bit sound card. In fact around this mid to late 90s early 2000 we seen a big re emergnace of the 70's standerd integrated motherboard. ( 80-s to 90s most motherboards wern't integrated)
WQhich helped pull computer system prices down just when sellers had a BIG opening market for mroe home buyers and schools,buisnesses upgrading/replacing systems. ( its when compaiens like Gateway made thier real money and Compact came reappeared after it shirvled up in the 80s.)

People like ourselves ( game and application enthusiests) tend to keep up on that technology, if not in actual hardware, at least in knowlage of the technology because we have an active intrest in it.

like someone that is very avid about cars, they know allot of the NEW hardware, equipment and tools dealing with automotives as they come about, but they probably don't know much about postage stamps other then to stick them on an envelope.

Your average computer user ( even in most buisnesses) is that avid auto fan. They know what they need to know about computers and that is enough for them.