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One June, my dad supplied me with a sleek-looking HP Kayak, excess from his office, which no one else could get to work. I was not so much thrilled by the challenge itself as I was deperate for a faster machine - the Gateway had reached the point where even Powerpoint seemed to crawl, and reformatting was out of the question with 5 users in the house and no means of mass storage for backing up.
I spent virtually the entire summer fixing up the Kayak; finally, sometime around August, I succeeded in getting Windows 98 to boot properly. (I could see why they had given up in the office). It was gorgeously fast - 266Mhz, with 96 entire megabytes of RAM. As my reward, I got to bring the computer out of the basement and into my bedroom. There, it served me well for a number of years.
I can't even remember all the games I played during that time. For starters, looking at the old boxes in my basement: Heroes of Might and Magic II, Unreal Tournament, Commandos, StarCraft, SimCity2000, The Incredible Machine, Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, Red Alert, Civilization II.
Somewhat later, we were finally enlightened by broadband. (Wow! What have I been doing all my life without this?) A friend pointed me in the direction of Asheron's Call (beta at the time), which would become a major vice for almost 3 years. I got Napster, and downloaded my first MP3s (today, the number is somewhat embarassing).
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Ah, Heroes of Might and Magic… how the mighty have fallen.
Posted by Ben at September 21, 2002 7:41 PM :: Link