It all started in 1991 (was in std 4) and I have been hooked to the same for years. Came as an optional course, for which we needed to give a relatively big amount, quarterly. For my father, allocating money on education and that too especially for me;) was never a problem. So I was inJ.

Initial few classes were very boring and mundane (may be I was expecting something else).Finally the day arrived and our teacher allowed us in the practical lab. For the first time I got to use one of the better versions of Babbage’s machine. I still remember 4 students were sharing a PC without knowing what to do. Our teacher did something with some black thin square thing and PC (later realized he was booting PC with floppy drive with MS DOS).Now comes the best part. The only thing I knew about a computer was :”It is fast and can do anything”J. So once left alone on the command prompt, I did my first test and checked PC skills by typing

C:\>  Where is Delhi?

And the prompt answer comes

Bad Command

Clueless about what had happened, I was shocked that it didn’t know where Delhi was? Why the hell people talk so much about computer then;)

Anyways, slowly I was forced to learn commands related to directory and file handling. Then comes a tool with a TURTLE, called LOGO. The whole year ended with moving that Turtle right, left in circle and what not. It was a good experience but definitely was much much much below my expectation (How come it didn’t know where Delhi was?;)).

Next few years I got chance to work on BASIC and then to C and then to C++. All same junk initial programs of palindrome, Armstrong numbers, factorials, sorting etc were conceptual but dull. [Still I was looking for my definition of CompJ].

In year 1997 got chance to use multimedia PC (courtesy School) and it was really fascinating to see a mouse click triggering voice, video and lot of information. It looked like fun. But there was only 1 PC of that kind and we were left to use our dumb;) B/W  PCs.

First year in College provided junker non graphical dabba black and white PCs. (Why only freshers , others had access to colored Windows PC lab).But that was the PC I was looking for. It had the thing that I expected from the PC from the first day, the Internet. Lynx was the tool  and Google and yahoo have their own fun. So I could be found stuck to those dabbas and doing all junk of searches and mails.

In later years, it has been part of my life in some form. In office I hate it for many things   but do acknowledge that without it ,life will be too difficult.[really???;)]

Hope fully I will get my lappy soonJ.