I went to visit my dad one day and he brought out a laptop to show me. Said he found it at the local car wash sitting next to the vacuum pillars. This was in 19

I went to visit my dad one day and he brought out a laptop to show me. Said he found it at the local car wash sitting next to the vacuum pillars. This was in 1996 or so. It was a Sceptre brand with an integrated trackball instead of a trackpad. I asked him if I could borrow it. I never gave it back. I went back to see him again and he had bought a Compaq desktop system. Intel 266Mhz ... it was crazy fast ... compared to the laptop. It was so fast it could play Delphine Moto Racer. I remember feeling totally overwhelmed as each month (it seemed) that Intel was upping speeds in 33Mhz increments. I started buying "Computer World" magazines to keep up with the speed of innovation. Soon I was a computer expert and Dad made sure to tell his friends that. He let me use his desktop whenever I came over to visit. It was too big to carry out to the car, which I think he was glad about. I used Laplink and a null-printer cable to try and siphon off his files so I could get Windows 98 to run on my laptop. Eventually, I started a software company and today Dad is using a custom PC I put together for him. :-)