I was around my 14 orbit around the Sun when my father decided to acquire our first PC. The amazing IBM PC with an Intel 8086 with an incredible 1mb, two DD 8" floppies, one heavy "brick" HD with 20Mb, and one yellow phosphorus BW screen.
English is not my mother language but soon I found a great incentive that helped me understand DOS and after that to run my first games. But what really made me learn about the PC was when a few months after my father brought the PC home I damaged it.
The PC stopped booting due to my constant changes with the intent to increase the...