New mouse pad!

It smells like gasoline, gross!

Chip in ----->

I have just posted a new chipin over on the right, because I am reviewing iPhone apps on my pass/fail blog Passed Mustard.   Check it out, and chip in if you can. Also I have a facebook page where you can vote for new apps to review.

My first home computer

Now by now you must think that I grew up with computers in my house since I was little.  Well, I was a kid in the 80s, and there were quite a few good home computers in the 80s (commodore 64, Atari ST, etc.) but my first home computer was a 286 that my parents had rented.  That's right, rented. It had DOS 5 on it and barely any games, and it was my first home computer.  Shortly after that my dad found something better, a used 486.  In fact we didn't rent the 286 for very long at all, and after learning how much they paid, I'm not surprised they got rid of it as soon as they could.  Since that first bunch of 486s and then AMD pentium replacements to the iMac and MacBook they have now, my parents have owned all manner of computers.

The first computer I had in my room was an XT with MS/DOS, but that didn't last long before I got one of the old 486s upgraded to an AMD pentium replacement (socket 7 remember those?).  I had windows 98 on it for a while, but then I saw a news cast about linux, and some advertisements for TurboLinux distributions at Future Shop (talk about cheap, cost $30 and had a $40 mail in rebate).  So TurboLinux was my first linux distribution and it was also on what was essentially my first computer (XTs don't count do they?).  That crappy distro really taught me a lot about linux, bash, rpm, and how to manually install linux.

So there you have it, my first computers, and my first linux.