I got into my computers at around 6 years old, when my dad bought us a 386, with windows 3.11. Played alot of games on it like wing commander, hocus pocus, prince of persia, red cat, and must've been like a hundred more.
I got my mom to take me to some book store at the weekend so i could buy a floppy diskette with 3 shareware games on it; thats how i got my first commander keen(which was extremely awesome).
Then in 2000 my dad bought a new PC, a Pentium II-MMX 400Mhz, with windows 98, and a voodoo2 graphics card. Man! that thing was awesome!(for me, at that time
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After that he bought us a pentium 4 2Ghz, but with 256 RAM and a Geforce II something that was a load of crap. Me and my brother decided it really needed upgrading(we started to get interested in the newest and high end games), so we upgraded to 1GB ram, and a radeon 9600Pro. We played a hell of a lot morrowind on that on a huge ass 19" 1600x1200 CRT.
After that i got to buy my own stuff, and first bought a cheapass medion laptop, and after that a custom specced one. Currently I'm planning on buying a pc for myself this spring/summer.(My first real system, yay)
The reason i got into PC life, apart from the games and the fun, is simply because noone else in my family was, and i just started troubleshooting things for everyone and learned more and more^^. These days that means alot of calls from family or friends when they got a computer related issue, and building alot of new systems for friends, to keep their cost down, and to meet their needs as best as possible