PlumberSoCal2
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Really? I didn't think it was EnglishMan that takes me back! I remember how I really got into computers in the first place, it was '91 and I had a 286 that I'd somehow screwed up the cmos on, it needed a floppy to restore that I didn't have, so I took it over to a buddy who had been tinkering with stuff going back to Amigas and Commodores. He popped his garage door open and he had shelves of PCB's and bins of chips, it was wild. So he said screw that whole floppy disk thing, found a cmos chip that fit my board, swapped it out fired it up and bam, up and running. Dude used to run into those old boards from the 80's and his fix half the time was to bend the board back and forth, put it back in and it would work, lol! So after that he started dragging me with him to the computer swap meets on the weekends and I started buying shit there and building my own towers and stuff. It was wild west back then, lol. There was no internet to go bid on stuff, no Amazon. But you could go to those shows and build yourself a system from parts for about $400 that they'd charge you $2,500 for at Circuit City!
My first computer was an Apple IIe with no memory and two floppy drives, with real floppy disks
Didn't get a Microsoft pc until late 90's and then it was an off the shelf, wasn't for games, I was self employed used it for work. OK the basic 5 games, Solitaire being one but didn't really play 'em