Even though I’m no longer in the computer field, I have always been a geek at heart. In short, my journey in the PC world has been a long one. It was a tough decision to make, as I documented in my announcement article.

Fun times!Īfter I graduated from college, I stayed in Information Technology field for many years, but back in 2014 I decided to quit my corporate job and run this website full-time. By then, I enjoyed running antivirus tools, Norton Disk Doctor, and programming in BASIC and Pascal. At the time when Bill Gates stated that nobody ever needs more than 640 KB of RAM, having a machine with that much memory was surely a luxury!Īs time passed, I became a PC geek – my first job was fixing PCs at a local business – I was only 16. Heck, I even managed to load up Loom on a boatload of floppy disks, swapping them back and forth to be able to play this game. I learned all the intricacies of the MS-DOS operating system, and I was able to tear the machine apart and rebuild it several times. The next few years were a big learning curve for me, as I went back and forth using 360 KB (yes, kilobytes!) 5.25″ floppy disks. A 20 MB hard drive was very valuable in those days, and I ended up with a machine with no permanent storage. I still remember how the PC repair guy simply took out the hard drive for himself, telling my dad that I messed it up bad. In less than a week, I managed to format my hard drive and make the machine unbootable. Having previously only had experience with the Bulgarian Pravetz computer that was used at my school, I had no idea how to operate a PC.

My first PC was the IBM XT 286 that came with a 20 MB hard drive and two 5.25″ floppy drives. Having used PCs for over 30 years (yes, since early MS-DOS days), I have always been fond of building my own computers, installing operating systems and having complete control over the whole process.

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