A personal note on my history with Linux
If you read my previous post, I mentioned a fellow on my Local Linux User Group, Michael Ward. As I was writing the post, all sorts of memories came flooding back to me. Michael was the first to help me install Linux on my computer. I drove over to his place and he installed RedHat for me. This would have been about 10 years ago so it must have been RedHat version 5 give or take. He was also the one who taught me how to build computers.
The first "computer" my family had was a Commodore 64. I loved that thing - it had the best games. Our next computer was a 386 and was built with scrap pieces by NAIT students and it had Win3.1. Somehow my Mom had a connection with someone there and we got it for cheap. Back then cheap was in the $2000 range if memory serves me correctly.
The dot matrix printer that we had for that machine was awesome. It had the paper with the holes on the sides. What a beast. I swear that thing worked better than many of today's printers.
A few years later my Mom purchased a computer from a local shop, Centauri computers in Edmonton. And a couple years after that is when myself and a friend took the "Build your own computer" course from Michael Ward in the upstairs of that same shop. I've been building my own computers since then.
Michael has a great website where you can read about the basics of computers and computer related things such as "How to buy a computer", "Multi-booting a computer" and more.
I'm fairly certain there are scores of other computer geeks who can relate to this story.

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