I'm the opposite - for various reasons, I gave home computers a very wide berth for a very long time, apart from sound-synthesis and track-building applications. Having spent my life avoiding typewriters, avoiding word processing and the such was a natural extension :P
My first box was built by my big bro (the same very old school bro who, when faced with YM graphics a couple of years ago, screamed "NOOOO! It eats bandwidth!!!", heh) from sturdy old spares, and posted to me across the water pre-loaded with '98. Early '98. Stable '98. Taught myself to drive it and never even saw the infamous Blue Screen of Death until I moved down here and got a new box with XP on it...but I hatehatehate the Micro$oft business model and particularly hate the whole registration shite, and as my Dearly Beloved works for a Linux consultancy and was using ancient DeadRat at home, I was introduced the The Lurve and have never looked back :-)
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My first box was built by my big bro (the same very old school bro who, when faced with YM graphics a couple of years ago, screamed "NOOOO! It eats bandwidth!!!", heh) from sturdy old spares, and posted to me across the water pre-loaded with '98. Early '98. Stable '98. Taught myself to drive it and never even saw the infamous Blue Screen of Death until I moved down here and got a new box with XP on it...but I hatehatehate the Micro$oft business model and particularly hate the whole registration shite, and as my Dearly Beloved works for a Linux consultancy and was using ancient DeadRat at home, I was introduced the The Lurve and have never looked back :-)