In 1987 the introduction of the 80386 by Intel was a game-changer for computing. Things got faster then. From the perspective of 2023 it all seems a wee bit slow. We look back at this episode of the Computer Chronicles and wonder what it was like to see these things for the first time. A complete show post with further details is found at https://coyote.works/2023/computer-chronicles-the-386.html