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Great, now show us some shots done with it.
Smoke665, sounds like you started in this stuff about the same time I did. Do you remember the IBM 1620 and paper tape? Fortran was like learning to speak a second language and Assembler, well that was fun too. I had my first PC in 1984, whoops I am dating myself - a monster with 640K of memory, two 5¼ inch floppies and an orange on black monitor - Columbia brand if I remember correctly, an IBM clone - remember the XT. My clients had those "filled the room on the false floor" size monsters. I went towards the systems/business analyst part of the discipline rather than the hardware side, although I can still tackle some of the hardware stuff - the old saying - I know just enough to be dangerous - applies to me.I sort of grew up during the evolution of the computer. From programming in Fortran on key punch cards (on a computer that filled a good size room) to the latest Win 10. Networking is one of those use it or lose it things, the last real network of any size that I set up was at least 10 years ago. I can muddle through things if need be, but no where near up to speed.
You were advanced for the times - early '80s? I can't remember what I had on my desk at that time, probably some sort of IBM clone, probably pre-Dell as he didn't really get started until the late '80s, or early '90s. My how things have changed. I know have more computing power in my iPad than they had when the first satellite went into space.My first computer was an Atari 1200 with a tape backup. I used to write music files on it in basic. It only had 64k of RAM. My next PC was a Tandy 1000 with a 10 meg hard drive and a monochrome monitor.