10 years ago today I bought my first PC from the now defunct Compustore on the Long Mile/Nass road in Dublin. It was a Packard Bell iMedia (below) and it still works. Using it as my backup/music studio PC now.
I bought it mainly to record music and because a friend of mine bought one a bit before and showed me what a pc could do, even in the days before broadband! The last time I’d touched a PC was in college studying engineering about 7 years previously when Windows 3.1 and maybe ’95 were popular. My one had Windows XP which had just come out and as most people know, 7 years is a long time in computing, a lot changes and after I managed to get it out of the box, connected and turned on, it looked pretty alien to me.
The very first thing I did was to go online, via dialup and the first website I saw was Eircom’s. On it I saw an ad for an online dating site and for those that know me personally, the rest is history! Here’s some of the things I’ve done with computers since:
- Started an IT business,
- Met my Fiance and mother of my 2 girls,
- Recorded music,
- Found jobs,
- Met friends,
- Communicated with the world,
- Found old school mates,
- Gained respect,
- Booked holidays,
- Found cheaper stuff to buy,
- Re-gained a love of writing,
- Learned a LOT,
- Photoshopped,
- Designed,
- Edited movies,
- Enabled instant access to infinite information,
- Diagnosed illnesses.
What have you done with yours!?
Leon
Reverb Studios Design 