They bought home an old 386 machine from work when I was around 6 or 7. It just attracted my curiosity... So I got it up and running by myself when I got home f

They bought home an old 386 machine from work when I was around 6 or 7. It just attracted my curiosity... So I got it up and running by myself when I got home from school the next day, before my Dad had got home from work (with the intention of setting it up for me himself). He came in stunned to see me playing with Paint, with all the bits plugged in correctly, sprawled out across the floor. It just made sense somehow. After a week, my kitchen was covered in dot-matrix printed pictures printed on reams and reams of paper (with those funky perforated holes on the side). I used up the whole ribbon in less than 2 weeks, which was apparently naughty haha. I also used to like making letter and signs, which I helpfully placed all over the house. The modern equivalent is leaving a Raspberry Pi out for a kid to play with, I guess. So much fun :) I went on to study Computer Science at uni and am now a Software Engineer, aged 23 and a quarter!