I was born 25 years ago which makes me 25 (I think). I went to a school, lounged around a while and then did a Fas course in application programming. For an English-orientated language Cobol sure is crap but I learned a lot about other stuff.

I used to work for Dec on the Microsoft helpdesk. That is where the phrase "You don't have to be mad to work here, except you do BWAAHAHAHA!!" came from.

I worked for Compaq doing much the same but with renewed Vigour and Sense Of Purpose!!!!. Three months into that job Compaq bought Digital which was odd. I was "safe in the hands of Hibernian" Insurance, doing I.T. type geekery and now I am a Field Service Engineer for P.C. Peripherals endlessly travelling on my merry way doing yet more geeky type stuff.

Despite this I still like computers and have had a cpu since the early 80's

• Football/Tennis/Squash Console Thingy - Can't remember the make but it was the source of endless fun and mirth. Like Pong only in colour and with three sports!
• Atari 2600 - My most favourite achievment with this was clocking Pacman ie: I scored over 100,000 and then it reset to zero. Wehaay!
• Spectrum 48k - The rubber key-padded wonder - I learn't basic on this baby. I played Jetpack until it overheated and died :(
• Amiga 500 - 1000's of great games, a solid Gui interface, Long filenames, endless diskswapping. Ahh the memories! Now I still play those classics like SuperCars 2 and SpeedBall 2 on my WinUAE emulator
• PC Clone - but when it came down to it I needed what business used so I got a Pc. It was very crap but that taught me how to optimize it for speed. This turned out to be handy.
• Dell Dimension XPS P90 - My previous PC. It's a Pentium and it went fast (even with Win95!!). It's lovely and I regularly hugged it and squeezed it and called it George.
• Digital 3010 200MMX - Still not exactly leading edge but with the Voodoo 2 card and an SB Live! value I  put into it served my musical, gaming and internet needs quite nicely. Also I've taken the ultimate step in home geekery and set up my own mini lan.
• AMD K7 550 mhz Tower - The full sized tower case from QXL auctions, the cd-rom, floppy and SB Live! Value from my previous system. I bought the Voodoo 3500 from Electronic Boutique and the rest from those great guys at Scan.