21 years ago, my Dad brought home a used 286 PC that he'd picked up from a friend's moving sale or something. Dad already had his own 386, so the 286 ended up i

21 years ago, my Dad brought home a used 286 PC that he'd picked up from a friend's moving sale or something. Dad already had his own 386, so the 286 ended up in my room. It had a black-and-orange monitor, 1MB of RAM (or maybe it was 2MB, I don't remember exactly), and no operating system. The problem? I had to reinstall MS-DOS on that crap, but I couldn't pirate Dad's copy because it came in 3.5" floppies and my 286 only had 5.25" drives. (IIRC Linux was not compatible with 286 PCs, either.) That was the beginning of my foray into hacking. 21 years later, I still don't do programming "professionally", i.e. my primary source of income isn't from programming. But I don't care because I was never in it for the money, I just like to tinker with things.