Passion related to computers as a hobby is the thing I miss. Once upon a time if your were "into computers" that meant something, now everybody thinks that the

Passion related to computers as a hobby is the thing I miss. Once upon a time if your were "into computers" that meant something, now everybody thinks that they are into computers. "Like facebook right?" <eye-twitch> My first x86 PC had a 425MB SCSI-II hard-drive and a "triple Speed" (3x) CD-ROM. Having a SCSI drive with a seek time of UNDER 11ms was enough to blow the doors off of every other computer I came across (IIRC 4ms was the actual time vs 11ms for most other 120MB HD's at the time.) Everything about SCSI was cool. Over powered, over engineered, and willing to take abuse better then anything else. It was an AMD 386DX-40, 8MB of RAM, a VGA-Wonder XL video card, a Logitech bus mouse, soundblaster, and 2 modems; 14.4 & a 56k USR. AND I ran linux on it. Well I could install linux, and couldn't really figure out what to do with it after that. But Even back then Linux detected EVERYTHING, and it was FAST.