My family got a computer for Christmas in 1993 if I remember correctly.

It was a custom build from WJM computers.
Specs:
CPU - 386sx 25Mhz (qfp package soldered onto the motherboard
RAM - 4MB fpm, 30-pin SIMM (4x 1MB)
HDD -120MB IDE
Video - Trident 8900 (think it had 1MB)
1.2MB 5.25" floppy
1.44 MB 3.5" floppy
MS-DOS 5.0
Windows 3.0
Monitor - 14" SVGA.

Amstrad PC 2086, a 8MHz 8086 based XT around -90, can't remember exactly. I didn't have it that long, it was around autumn -91 or so when I got a 386SX-20. I remember the 386SX timeline better as I got Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe immediately after the release and by then I had that system for some time.

Anyways, it was as bare bones model as they came: no HDD and mono VGA display. Pretty soon dad got a 30MB Kalok RLL HDD for it and I saved money and bought external 1.44MB floppy drive for it (it had 720kB internal drive) which made file transfers with friends much smoother as most of them had 286s or faster with HD floppy drives.

I have generally good memories of the system. Sure, XT was slow system by then, but it was enough to learn the basics of PC and I happily played games on it that required much faster machines. Those pesky low single digit FPS dips didn't manage to kill my enthusiasm 🤣

My first PC was eMachines T1100. My father went to USA as a military english teacher, in around 1999 and promised to get me a new computer when he gets back. Back then I remember MHz was everything... I didn't know much more about PCs than, more MHz was better. Few months before he got back, he sent me a picture of this eMachine, with him playing Red Ace squadron on it, with a very cool looking Gravis Joystick. He also sent the specs of the PC to my uncle, which I remember him interpreting for me as, really fast. He did say something about it being a Celeron and not Pentium, but it was 1GHz, and that was magic back then.

Once he got back I was super hyped. The Machine had XP on it, no SPs, just plain original XP home edition. 256 MB of SDRAM, 1 GHz Celeron CPU, and a 20GB HDD. CD writer was also there (without any buffer I will find out later, and I wasted so many CDs because of buffer underrun errors 🤣).

For about a year I was very happy with this machine. Once for my birthday, I got a Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 game, and that's when my first problems started haha. The game installed perfectly fine but refused to boot, and gave some kind of error. The reason was of course a integrated intel video card, an i810. If I remember correctly later drivers allowed me to run the game, but it had like 10-15 fps at low settings, so I started to investigate how to upgrade my machine.

About that time I found out that my PC has very limited upgrade options. The motherboard was "Anaheim 3", whatever that is, it had only 3 PCI slots, and nothing else. I scraped up some money and got myself the only solution that was available for me back then. A Radeon VE, PCI version with 32 MB. I had high hopes for it... It was after all a brand new of the shelf card, with shiny red and black "Game buster" box. The card allowed me to start many games I couldn't play before, but I was surprised by how much FPS I gained, games just felt almost as slow.

All these experiences led me to read about hardware and software, more and more, and I learned so much... before long I discovered why I had frequent PC restarts, my PSU was also very poor, around 150W. I also started messing with OC tools and bios options around that time and soon, I was building a new PC, a Tualatin based P3 with AGP slot.

As troublesome as it was... this eMachine is still so dear to me, and vivid in my memory... My father made me very happy when he brought it, and if it wasn't built, the way it was, it's possible I would never learn as much as I did. So I really am so gratefull... I wish I could find one of these to buy it and restore.

I don't have any photos of my first PC (from 1996). It was a custom-built system based on a Pentium 100MHz (non-MMX) CPU. Probably 8GB or 16GB RAM to start with and a 1.2GB hard drive. I bought a secondary 3.2GB drive at some point.

It had a bunch of pirated software installed, straight out of the store, which was the custom at the time. Including Windows 3.x and Office.

dr_st wrote on 2026-08-31, 06:33:

It had a bunch of pirated software installed, straight out of the store, which was the custom at the time. Including Windows 3.x and Office.

Haha, damn straight! Mine came with Windows 95, Office 97, Doom, Duke3D, Dark Forces, Quake, Commanche, and NFS 😀 It was a custom build. It had a Pentium 133, 16 MB RAM, 1.2 GB HDD, S3 Virge with 2 MB of memory, some Sound Blaster clone, an 8x CD ROM drive, standard 1.44 floppy drive, Chicony DIN keyboard, COM mouse, and a Sampo Alphascan 14" monitor.

My parents bought it for me in August 1997, and by the time they paid the last installment some 2 years later, it had already become super obsolete, so I upgraded it with another 16 MB of RAM and a 12 MB Voodoo2 (I still have that very same card in my Win98 rig 😀 ) after scraping up some allowance money, and the guys at the computer store even overclocked the Pentium to 166 MHz! Yeah, too little too late, I know, but I still had some fun playing NFS III, Tomb Raider 3 and 4, SIN, and Motorhead before this PC finally died in the summer of 2001.

I was 12 when I got it, and whenever I think back to that time, I can only describe the experience as a purely magical journey of discovery. It was a huge upgrade from my Amiga 600 (still have it as well), firing up Quake or NFS felt like stepping into some other super-colorful and super fun dimension. It'd be an awesome nostalgia trip to recreate this PC for its 30th anniversary next year, but sadly, as we all know too well, Pentium 1 machines in working order command ridiculous prices nowadays.

Pentium 233MMX, 32MB RAM, 8GB HDD, 2x VooDoo 2 12MB SLI + S3 Virge. It served me all upon 1999/2000.

revolstar wrote on 2026-08-31, 08:03:

dr_st wrote on 2026-08-31, 06:33:

It had a bunch of pirated software installed, straight out of the store, which was the custom at the time. Including Windows 3.x and Office.

Haha, damn straight! Mine came with Windows 95, Office 97, Doom, Duke3D, Dark Forces, Quake, Commanche, and NFS 😀

Oh, mine didn't have these fancy games (only some basic crap ones). I remember getting the holy grails (Doom, Descent, Duke Nukem 3D, Mortal Kombat) from a family friend who had it on his computer. Back when you copied everything through dozens of floppy disks...

revolstar wrote on 2026-08-31, 08:03:

My parents bought it for me in August 1997, and by the time they paid the last installment some 2 years later, it had already become super obsolete, so I upgraded it with another 16 MB of RAM and a 12 MB Voodoo2 (I still have that very same card in my Win98 rig 😀 )

I think by the time that PC was retired (the motherboard died out of warranty) it had 32MB of RAM... But I never upgraded the GPU on it, it was some basic Cirrus Logic. Oh, and it had an ESS688! I regret not having kept that one.

The first time I got a Voodoo was the K6-II rig, which I still have in my possession, with the Voodoo 3 3000 still in it. 😜

dr_st wrote on 2026-08-31, 08:24:

Oh, mine didn't have these fancy games (only some basic crap ones). I remember getting the holy grails (Doom, Descent, Duke Nukem 3D, Mortal Kombat) from a family friend who had it on his computer. Back when you copied everything through dozens of floppy disks...

Yeah, tell me 'bout it! Once I made a breakneck attempt to copy Virtua Fighter 2 from a friend from school. Took some 30 floppy disks going back and forth for 2 or 3 weeks. I'm pretty sure at least a third of those disks were either borrowed from some other mates of ours, or repurposed driver disks etc., because come on, 30 floppy disks! That was an astronomical number for a bunch of 7th graders in the late 90s. 😜 There was also a fair share of disk errors... 😜

So it wasn’t a from scratch build but it was enough of a rebuild that I count it. In 1993, my family got retail 486sx-33 and for months everything was good. Then one day I pulled the AT style keyboard forward and the cord sheared on the back of the sharp metal case. I loved that keyboard. I was in high school at the time and I thought I could rewire it, but I did incorrectly. When I plugged it and and restarted the computer it created a short that fried the motherboard. I told my parents- they tried having someone replace the resistors they had visibly burnt out but it would not power up. So we ordered a slightly newer replacement motherboard (with VLB, for later upgrades!). It took sometime to arrive via mail, we removed the dead motherboard, installed the new one, and repopulated cpu/ram/isa cards and it worked. And that gave me the confidence to DYI my own upgrades and build my next PC’s from scratch.

I miss that era, going to weekend computer expo shows to buy parts rather than ordering online.

First PC in the house was my mother's IBM PS/2 model 70 which she bought from her employer (IBM) with a big discount in 1988. 60MB HDD had two partitions, one with OS/2 1.1, the other with PC-DOS 3.3. At some point I (after promising I would NOT touch the C: drive) managed to upgrade the latter to MS-DOS 4.01. Personally I was still working with my Sinclair Spectrum, and suddenly having a 386 with VGA was an amazing upgrade - not just in terms of graphics but in depth of gameplay. Going from Dizzy and Renegade to SimCity, Ultima 6, Wing Commander, Wolfenstein 3D, Civilization was a revelation.

I got my own first PC when I left home to study. Money was tight so it was dated when I bought it in 1995: Pentium 60, 8MB FP RAM, SiS501-based MSI motherboard, 1MB S3 868 PCI VGA, 540MB Quantum HDD - and a Gravis Ultrasound Max. For the first time ever I had something better than beeps & buzzes from PC speaker (or the AY-3-8912 from a Speccy +2). When it was supported, it was amazing. When it wasn't, I got used to bashing my head on SBOS and MegaEM and often just dropping back to the speaker. I ran DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on it.
This computer lasted me for 4 years, which these days sounds short, but in the 1990s that was a long time, particularly given most of the hardware (and the software, as I skipped Win95 entirely) was 1993-vintage. I upgraded to 16MB RAM after a year, and near the end I added a 13GB HDD and a CD writer. In 1999 we were in the P3 and Celeron as well as Win98SE era and I was running DOS on the very first Pentium. That difference would be bigger than today running WinXP on a late P4, even though that would be over 20 years old. I don't regret skipping Win95 at all. Almost anything I really needed to run worked on Win3.1 anyway (sometimes with a lot of Win32s and WinG), and I had more speed and stability. Around the same time I bought this, my mother bought a P90 with Win95. My system always felt faster and crashed far less often. In 1999 I bought a Celeron 366 with 64MB RAM, an TNT2-M64 and ran WIn98SE on it. That got me ready for the turn of the next millennium.

revolstar wrote on 2026-08-31, 09:23:

Yeah, tell me 'bout it! Once I made a breakneck attempt to copy Virtua Fighter 2 from a friend from school. Took some 30 floppy disks going back and forth for 2 or 3 weeks. I'm pretty sure at least a third of those disks were either borrowed from some other mates of ours, or repurposed driver disks etc., because come on, 30 floppy disks! That was an astronomical number for a bunch of 7th graders in the late 90s. 😜 There was also a fair share of disk errors... 😜

Archiver programs with improved compression rates, and built-in capability to span multiple disks were a must! ARJ, RAR, JAR (not the Java one!), ACE...
But even they didn't save you from a single disk error on 1/10 floppies. 😆

I guess it really depends on how you define "PC" - most people think this means an "IBM Personal Computer" or compatible. Others think it means any "Personal Computer" (which might be totally unlike IBMs creation)

I built my first system in the late 1970s, based on the (then new) Intel 8080 processor - I wrote ALL the software for it beginning with a machine language "monitor", then a "tape" operating system, with assemblers, debuggers, BASIC, editors and more - it was basically the system where I learned what a computer could do!

I got my first "commercial" system a few years later, a "Mits Altair 8800".
Although I "bought" it, it was a kit that you had to assemble. Still an 8080 based system, soon after I got a "NorthStar floppy disk" system and "North Star DOS". I used this machine a LOT and learned a lot more about creating software for a disk based system - this was basically where my career as a software developer began!

You can see both of these machines on my "Daves Old Computers" site!
You can even experience actually running my Altair with the fairly accurate simulator I published there for this exact system.

I got my first "IBM PC compatible" probably in the 1980s or early 1990s. I don't recall exactly what make it was, but it was basically an XT clone running MS-DOS - and as these were becoming much more common, this is probably where my company DDS began (or it might have been a machine or two later - perhaps a 286).

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I've kinda given up keeping track of the systems I have/had. As you cam see on "Daves Old Computers". I had a LOT over the years - even now I probably have more than 50, and of those at least 30 are "IBM PC" compatible desktops/laptops! (It really is a sickness)

My first computer was a custom PC from "Just Imagine" out of New Brunswick, Canada. I remember not getting the configuration I ordered. Just looking it up now, it appears this was not an honest mistake. Apparently, this company was infamous for "operational issues," whether intended or not.

The following events occurred while I was in the UK...

It's "complicated" ...

First computer in the house was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k games were gamed, loaded off cassette tape, messed around with the BASIC a bit. A few years down the road, later 80s, when peripherals got cheap 2nd hand, I tried to make it "more serious" with an Interface 1 with serial, a ZX printer (Sparky McFirehazard), hard keyboard, and microdrives... but I didn't get the microdrives working too well, think they were worn/maladjusted, would stretch the tape on cartridges and fail to format. About this time, I was making cow eyes at the Spectrum 128 +3 with floppy and dropping heavy hints to the 'rents, but nothing came of that, nor of suggesting the Archimedes was the education positive alternative. Then I was looking at the Sam Coupe, maybe a bit prior to release, was teased for a couple of years IIRC, but by the time that came I realised it belonged in 1987 and it was soon gonna be 1990, 8/16 was out 16/32 was in. Being a brokeass teen, I just had to squirrel away some cash and wait until...

Amiga 1200, which I bought soon after launch, with HDD installed. Woohoo, games plus real computing... and about a third of the ask for a PC with any stones at the time (And that would be a clone, a Compaq etc would have been double again). I would regard this as my main "Personal Computer" until 1996. But knowing that this x86/DOS/Windows thing was endemic to the world of business etc by now because they were all boring and shit, I more or less concurrently with the Amiga dived into learning about IBM PC compatibles, and it gets more complicated...

First IBM compatible PC waaaaaaasssss.... An Amstrad PC1640 ... or was it an Amstrad PC1512 ?? Was it both? Was it neither? I picked up a very large box at junk price containing well used PC1640, PC1512 two monitors, some disks, their keyboards and mice... and plugged them in annnd... nothing-ish... yeah these were very much fixer uppers, but had signs of life. One monitor, forget which, think it was the color one, had zero picture at all, but the PSU for the PC was good. The mono, for the PC1512 I think, had a lot of picture problems... but I got it sort of working, with lines and a tear in it, and it powered the machine fine. Someone had been poking around inside and cables were disconnected the floppies were set wrong, and the RAM upgrade in 512 was badly seated... Anyway, somewhere along that line, I sorta had a working frankenstein setup with the 1640 running off it's own monitor but using the 1512. And I could sorta use DOS and GEM but the disks that came with were full of bad sectors. So I had some PC hardware running but was it "My PC" ?? Hmmm nah... So as I am going to computer fairs to pick up nice shiny stuff for the A1200 and pick the junkboxes for anything to help the Amstrads, I, on the lookout for a monitor, come across an IBM monochrome for $5.. Deal! I say, and then discover I bought a monitor and a whole 5160 and keyboard. So...

First IBM PC was a 5160 PC XT ... but it was still just meddling hardware not "My PC". It came with MDA, 386k RAM, 2MB LIM card, MFM HDD interface and FULL height 10MB MFM drive. Single 5.25. It shook the desk on disk activity. I think it had a 3,xx version of DOS on and had a version of WordPerfect which took up most of the disk and maybe some card games, but it was slllowwww. The Amstrads had acquired V20/30 chips not sure if some production had those or whether upgraded and they were at 8mhz I think so those, even with just floppies and bad sectors felt way faster to use than the 5160. I was already spoiled. At this point I didn't think of trying a V20 in the 5160, or they were V30 and I couldn't anyway or something, or I didn't know shit. Anyway, what transpired was Frankenstein PC setup Mki II which was an Amstrad powered off it's monitor, with 10MB MFM HDD crammed in, using the 5160 mono, and having stolen the 2MB LIM card also... WordPerfect was almost worth using on it... still wasn't "My PC"

I guess we were into '93 by now, the 486 was becoming entry level and 386 was being sold off in a panic. The IBM XT was sitting there in it's slowness, half "borrowed away" into the Amstrad speed racer 🤣 and I was still going to computer fairs.... leading me to score one of those M396 type baby AT boards with a 40Mhz AMD 386SX on for a decent price, but I could only afford 2 1MB sticks to go into it and the cheapest AT keyboard on offer, also picked up a clone herc/CGA card for a buck or something. Anyway, on return, this went into the 5160's case, giving me a stonking 40mhz of 386 speed on 2MB RAM and a 360kb floppy, with full hercules mono when I plugged in the monitor. Think this was the one I also managed to get CGA in mono out of, on a spare "security" video monitor. I had a 2 week stall on getting it working though due to this board being configured to not run if the keylock was open, so I eventually figured to put a jumper on it. Concurrently we had also scared up fresh system disks and a fully working ECD monitor for the Amstrads, such that one complete Amstrad, now with 10MB HDD could be used standalone. Which became my parents computer as I was onto faster and better things... when I got all this shit together...

Needing "AT Parts" to flesh out my 386, I bought a 5170 system unit for all of $2 ... but it turned out it had very little I could use really... also it was the 6mhz one and felt slower than the Amstrads. "Stole" the LIM card back out of the Amstrad because it wasn't getting used really. Tried getting it going in the 386, but had too many conflicts between expected EMM386 type handler and the actual LIM driver. So into the 5170 it went. I managed to cram Windows 3 on the 20MB drive in the 286, and with that and the LIM, somehow I could launch more on the 286 and have it run at a crawl, vs what I could do with 2mb total on the 386 board. Along the way I had picked up a 40MB IDE and i/o card and the 386 was sort of a system. The 286 was sort of a system, futzed around on it. But anyway both were still sharing the monochrome monitor, apart from sometimes when I hooked up the CGA mono lashup. By now I was learning a lot faster due to having internet access at college. Could gopher up files and programs and save them to floppy. I had got a 1.44 floppy and a 720kb floppy in the 2nd amstrad, which I was using for 720 to 360 transfers.

Messing around with all of this, I still find time to actually attend college a bit, and enter a competition, which netted me some funds, and real computing classes were approaching at college. So I bought a refurbished Zenith Z-lite 320L, which since it had fully useable win 3.x and I used it for turbo pascal classwork etc, is a good candidate for the first PC compatible "My PC" and it was even what I first played Doom on. I fondly imagined I would be able to take notes on it also... nope... technical classes are not amenable to pure stream of text note taking AT ALL. Back to trying to de code spider scrawl of my own messy scribble. I typed up essays and project work on the A1200 still, was still my "main computer", the notebook being an accessory machine.

Shit! You say, will you come out with it and tell us what your first PC really is??? Well yeah I'm trying to get there. I visited more computer fairs, 386 got beefed up to VGA, 4MB and inserted into it's own minitower, on the cheap as deals were found, and got a 12" PS/2 type VGA monitor... storage was $$$ still, found another 40MB to put in it. It was kind of getting there. Games even felt worth playing on it, did a bit of Doom on it, but yeah, this thing feels like a bit of a dog, even getting to a decent spec... compared to the fluidity of the A1200... so it isn't my main rig still. It's getting to be the Pentium era almost.

Upgrade time for the PC, Amiga ecosystem falling apart with demise of Commodore, no way forward on that platform, now we're "all in" on the PC I guess, *sigh*. Being a natural cheapskate, Pentium was too rich for my blood, the P75 got heavily criticised in press, knowing more in retrospect, I might have stretched for that, but what I did get was a UMC VLB board and Cyrix 5x86 100GP... this started out with the ISA VGA and I/O and gradually gained RAM, HDD, VLB cards.. Anyway, by the time it had 1MB CL-5428, 8MB of RAM and a couple hundred MB of storage, it was "My PC" my main rig, Amiga was now 2nd fiddle.

Every configuration up to and including that rig had a "Ship of Theseus" chain back to the 5160, and also some parts along the way were in and out of the Amstrads, though I don't think anything came "from" them. I carried that forward with the original 5160 speaker through the later K6-2 machines into my athlon XP, then somehow I lost it, or the IBM FRU tag fell off and I am not sure which it is.

Anyway, pick a candidate.

Atari VCS in early 1980s, ZX Spectrum in mid 1980s, XT clone in late 1980s, 486DX4 in mid-1990s, Pentium II in late 1990s, Pentium 4 in early 2000s, Core i7 in early 2010s

(Since then I've had a series of ex-corporate Xeon workstations that came from fleabay. I haven't bought a new computer since 2010.)

I dont have any photos of it.
I had a Compaq Deskpro 2000 with a Pentium II 266, 64Mb RAM and a 4.3Gb SCSI HDD.

It wasnt the first computer i used but it was the first bought by me.
It was followed a about 3 years later with one I built myself based on a Super P3TDE6 which I do still own.

My first PC was given to me by my father. He won it an an auction for £2! As you can imagine, it was considered obsolete at that time. It was a 286. I forget the exact specs but I think the HDD was 20-30Mb. I also forget when he gave it to me, but I think probably 1993-1994. I distinctly remember installing Windows 3.x on it and it would take literally a minute or two to open any application on it. So I mostly used the PC in DOS.

I played Prince of Persia, Sim City, Duke Nukem 1+2 and Wolfenstein 3D on it. I also learnt to program in QBASIC 4.5 on it. If it wasn't for that machine I probably wouldn't have persued a career in software development. That £2 machine literally set the direction of my career, and therefore my life.

My first PC was a very used IBM 5150 with CGA graphics and a CGA monitor. I was 16 at the time, and I thought I got a good deal buying it used with a dot matrix printer included from a local bank in 1992. I didn’t know how long the bank had the computer in service or what they used it for, but it had a memory expansion and dual floppy drives (I never learned if the drives were single or double density). I wanted a PC, but didn’t have the money to buy a new one at the time. You could imagine my surprise when I discovered that it couldn’t run Windows 3.x, but I was a complete noob back then. I eventually took it to my high school after I got a 386 during my senior year to show the IBM to my physics teacher. He opened it up to show me the 8088 processor, the memory expansion card, the CGA, card, the floppy controller, and the Serial/parallel interfaces. I truly didn’t know any of that until he opened it up. The system served me for nearly a year for word processing school paper assignments and the occasional CGA game.

I consider my first real PC my Gateway 2000 low-profile 386SX-25 (with a Crystal Scan VGA monitor) that I bought in the fall of 1993 for about $900 total. I got it from the Gateway 2000 outlet store since I lived about 15 miles away from their factory on the other side of the state border. It had an 80MB hard drive and dual floppy drives (3.5 and 5.25), but no multimedia capabilities from the factory. While it was one of Gateway’s last 386s (essentially obsolete), I absolutely loved that computer and I learned almost everything I know about modern PCs from tinkering with it and upgrading it. I shortly upgraded it to a Media Vision PAS16, an external SCSI single-speed CD-ROM drive, and an external MODEM which served me for the rest of high school and my parents for a few years after I started college. I loved the look of the Gateway case so much that I ultimately transplanted my early college 486 DX2’s motherboard (also a low-profile LPX design) into the Gateway case for my parents to use and replaced the 5.25 floppy with an internal 4x IDE CD-ROM drive to upgrade the aging external SCSI drive. I’d say that Gateway system had about 6 solid years of service. I wish my parents had kept it.

More on less mirroring RetroPCCupboard's comment, and my first post in the forum. I ended up here because Gemini recommended the site on principle to find a caring home for a motherboard. Anyway, found the sticky from 2011 and others' posts on a similar tract to avoid selling here (per rules). Curiosity took over and now going along with this thread for the lulz.

First home PC (sold by some vendor scalping families at their doors. Mom did not know how to haggle):

IBM pre-built clunker (2001)
OS - XP
CPU Intel Pent III (IV)?
GFX 16-32MB
RAM 256mb
HDD 32GB
ISP connection: 56kbs dial-up (no second line)
Monitor: some overpriced cathode screen, 16 inches?
Gaming: AOE I + II; Sid Meiers: Alpha Centauri; Sim City 2000; NFS: High Stakes; Runescape oldschool (circa 2001); Emulators (except N64 was too heavy). Diablo II; Halo CE (somehow).
Favourite program: Winamp (!!!)
Length of service: 6.5yrs
Cost: $1999 ($1/day financing shenanigans)

Completely monopolized the PC, learnt all the basic skills from troubleshooting or cracking games. Lived through hardware bottlenecks until college and eventually found work at different customer support companies and gov't as first level support, guiding general users through their issues with my past exposure to PCs I learnt as a kid.

Final remark: I was exposed to the PC at a younger age, in 94, or cousin had his own rig to play Starcraft and Warcraft. While attending a school job fair at 15ish, I sat down at a secretary's desk to test my WPM, and the count was above 250-300. The employees' reactions were memorable, ogling a Mozart-esque kid striking keys from memory, which was simply second nature to me. It's been 25 years since coming into the house finding that rig. The draw to PCs has faded, yet, still in awe how much change we collectively lived through, for better or worse, with the advent of AI, overregulation and censors. I am uncertain how invested I could be without completely forsaking gaming and entertainment with a good 40 years left to this life, 🤣.