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The scene of the crime: Microcenter, "The Computer Department Store" which is actually still in business
today. I remember going to there with my friends to play games and stand in awe as I watched the Mystify screen
saver on all the computers. All I knew of computers is that the price on them was many digits, which meant
the $5 I got cutting the lawn couldn't get it. But after finding this receipt in cleaning out some
desk drawers, I didn't realize it was this much!
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The Family joins the computer age
Growing up it seemed that every other family but mine had a computer, so needless to say I was a bit
jealous of all my friends. But after finding this receipt and seeing that it was 1992 when we
bought our first computer amazes me simply in the fact that my parents didn't wait longer.
Sometimes, at night, I wonder where Mr. Zelinsk is today.
Being a computer nerd I know that computer years are measured in human months, but I didn't realize how
quick that actually is until I dug up this one. A mere decade ago the nice, middle-of-the-road home
desktop PC was a 486SX/25 cruising along with 4Mb of RAM and a 100Mb hard disk. But some things
never change, because the monitor was sold separately.
Ya know, I just can't help look at this and wonder how many computers it can buy today. Ouch.
And it was a simple as that. Out the door with a 486/25, 14" SVGA montior, dot-matrix printer, and our
very own copy of Windows 3.1 - Welcome to Future World - Disney would be proud.
And just like that, like all my friends, I had a computer. Surely I knew it wasn't the top-of-the-line
model, but it worked just the same. Now the challenge, to figure out how it works. Who would have thought
MS-DOS would be so easy. And that Windows thing? Child's play. But before too long it just wasn't good
enough.
» 1994 - The Upgrade
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