My first computer was a Tandy 486sx from RadioShack. One day I brought home the book "Becoming A Computer Animator". It came with a disc containing a copy of Tr

My first computer was a Tandy 486sx from RadioShack. One day I brought home the book "Becoming A Computer Animator". It came with a disc containing a copy of TrueSpace. But I couldn't run it because it required a math coprocessor. My dad was not a computer person, so he was not very thrilled about us opening up this mysterious box. But, he agreed, and together we installed the chip. And the software worked! One thing that was amazing back then was the step-function of upgrading your computer. At that point in Moore's Law, big updates weren't at such a ridiculous pace as they became over time, so if you had a 486, you had a 486 for a while. But add a SoundBlaster card (or the AdLib card for us lower-middle class folks), and suddenly your computer came to life in a way you didn't realize was possible.