[Scott Douglas]

My first computer was a 286 that my sister-in-law used at her work that quit working due to a blown up power supply. Her late husband was able to get it for me when I was laid off way back in '92. I figured I'd better learn how to work a computer if I was ever going to get a job again.
I got a local company to redo the 286 into a 386-40 I think it was. I struggled with it using a monochrome monitor (remember thouse?) and 2mb of RAM. Finally bit the bullet and got it up to 4mb of RAM and got a bootleg copy of (what did Catia replace as the go to engineering drafting program? Damn, I'm getting old.) to work on it, sort of.
Learned how to install hardware as well as some software and make it all work. Was able to become comfortable opening up a 'box' and seeing what was up inside hardware wise.
Bought a HUGE hd of 200mb for $200 or so which was a lot of money back then for an out of work guy who had two young kids and a wife to support.
Now days I'm happy to have a working computer that's pretty fast even for it's age. I do need to get my HD cleaned up as I'm fast running out of space given that my cameras make such large photo files. And I do like taking pictures.

EDIT : AutoCad, that's the program.