I got my parents to get me a Commodore 64 while I was in grade school because I wanted to play Zork. I ended up learning BASIC and writing my own "Interactive Fiction" games (in my own terrible, limited way)... I wasn't as bright as Corey!
My first "real" computer was a used PS/2. By this point I'd decided I wanted to work with computers, so I installed Windows 3.1 on it... maaaannnnn was it slow! It was only when I had access to college computer labs that the world opened up for me...
After that was a Gateway (because that was Pitt, my employer's standard) and my first time putzing with hardware... an HP Pavilion from the Las Vegas Best Buy... an HP laptop... now this Alienware. For an I.T. professional, I end up keeping my home compuetrs a long time, and have never really gotten a high-powered desktop. But I'm really surprised I can remember these all...
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My first "real" computer was a used PS/2. By this point I'd decided I wanted to work with computers, so I installed Windows 3.1 on it... maaaannnnn was it slow! It was only when I had access to college computer labs that the world opened up for me...
After that was a Gateway (because that was Pitt, my employer's standard) and my first time putzing with hardware... an HP Pavilion from the Las Vegas Best Buy... an HP laptop... now this Alienware. For an I.T. professional, I end up keeping my home compuetrs a long time, and have never really gotten a high-powered desktop. But I'm really surprised I can remember these all...