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I believe UW is the reason I'm in IT today. It was the first computer game I was obsessed with enough that I had to learn how to upgrade, maintain and optimize

by kgwxd 8y ago

I believe UW is the reason I'm in IT today. It was the first computer game I was obsessed with enough that I had to learn how to upgrade, maintain and optimize a PC. It was our family PC so, naturally, it got messed up a lot. I remember that I was playing UW when I found out my Grandma had passed, the first family death I was old enough to remember. I was also playing it when my first GF had her friend call me to announce she was breaking up with me.

samstave 8y ago
I owe my lifelong career in IT/Computers to Ultima as well - Ultima II on an Apple ][e... found in a drive in a computer lab at school in 7th grade. I played every ultima since - and was in Beta for UO and we played MANY accounts simultaneously when we worked in Intels DRG game lab in 1997 - where the Intel campus had a T3 - and our lab had a dedicated T1 - we used to play ~6 accounts simultaneously logged in across our gaming test desks - playing on Intels latest gaming machines (This is where we first tested out APG cards and the Unreal engine against Celeron machines - to prove that a <$1,000 computer was a marketable and game-capable machine) That was the golden days of my gaming - but I truly do owe my career to Ultima. (I was there when Lord British was Assassinated)