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<blockquote data-quote="Vixen" data-source="post: 392780" data-attributes="member: 21839">I came into computers late. I bought my first one in about 1990 after cashing in a life insurance policy that was not worth what I had paid into it. A computer seemed so much better. It was an IBM clone with a 386 operating system and 124mb hard drive which I had double spaced and was eventually running win95 on. I had it for years and years. It was built by amateurs and gave me heaps of trouble. It went back and forth to a number of techs coz it would just randomly die on me. I spent heaps on bits that it supposedly needed replacing as the cause of it's problems and then one day my neighbour (who was a computer tech I discovered) told me to bring it round and he'd look at it. He found that non of the cards in the back were fitted correctly and so kept losing connection with the motherboard. Worked perfectly ever after from that day until I decided enough was enough and bought a new one.I cut my teeth on that tho. Went up thru windows, all sorts of software, installed new hardware etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vixen, post: 392780, member: 21839"] I came into computers late. I bought my first one in about 1990 after cashing in a life insurance policy that was not worth what I had paid into it. A computer seemed so much better. It was an IBM clone with a 386 operating system and 124mb hard drive which I had double spaced and was eventually running win95 on. I had it for years and years. It was built by amateurs and gave me heaps of trouble. It went back and forth to a number of techs coz it would just randomly die on me. I spent heaps on bits that it supposedly needed replacing as the cause of it's problems and then one day my neighbour (who was a computer tech I discovered) told me to bring it round and he'd look at it. He found that non of the cards in the back were fitted correctly and so kept losing connection with the motherboard. Worked perfectly ever after from that day until I decided enough was enough and bought a new one. I cut my teeth on that tho. Went up thru windows, all sorts of software, installed new hardware etc. [/QUOTE]

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