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My first memory of a PC is standing by the teachers assistant while he input my commands into the game Grannies garden on a dusty old BBC micro in the corner of a classroom.

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This creepy bitch is seared into my memory
 
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In the mid 90s my father picked up an IBM AT clone with a (real) IBM 5151 monochrome display for $50. He brought it home, plugged it in. It booted up straight into some data entry looking program. None of us could figure out how to use it. I didn't see that computer again for 10 years.

I was too young to remember the fine details of the program, which must have been in the autoexec.bat because we were all too computer illiterate to have started it ourselves. But thinking about it I'd say it was probably a custom front end for dBASE or something similar.

Unfortunately next time I was in front of that computer, its CMOS battery had died and I wasn't well versed enough in MFM/RLL to figure out how to correctly guess the drive geometry and set it in the CMOS setup program. So I'll never know exactly what that program was.

It feels like so long ago now.
 
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Gargamel said:
In the mid 90s my father picked up an IBM AT clone with a (real) IBM 5151 monochrome display for $50. He brought it home, plugged it in. It booted up straight into some data entry looking program. None of us could figure out how to use it. I didn't see that computer again for 10 years.
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Reminds me of our first home PC. We had the game commando but I opened command.exe which for some reason kept the pc in command line no matter how many times we power cycled it. took us weeks to fix it.
 
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Not being allowed to play Dune 2000 because my dad thought we'd break it. Once my brother and I got onto the computer while the parents weren't home and played it. Somehow ended up scratching up the disk despite handling it with utmost care.
The fates conspired to ruin my life.
 
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I remember by older brother playing Red Alert or some other rts. At the time, I didn't think computers could be used for gaming and that they were just some doodad for dad's work.
 
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