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25-year-old tests Mac her own age

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MSN UK's Tech and Gadgets editor, Jane Douglas, pits her modern-day PC against a Macintosh that was made when she was still in nappies.

The Mac celebrates its 25th birthday this weekend.

The iconic computer arrived on the market three years after Microsoft launched its DOS operating system, but a year before the software giant released Windows.

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