The first thing I remember is when I started the machine and got what then for me was pretty much a blank screen with a possible error - thus having a sudden feeling of guilt (as I might have broken it and i think i had sneaked in the room too so you can imagine the slight feeling of panic that came upon me at the moment). It was DOS.. The second time i was a bit smarter, I saw my brother type a command which made it all start and then appeared “Windows” .. maybe the command is “windows”! No.. maybe “start windows”? ..no .. maybe “go windows” (i remembered somthing with an “o”) .. maybe .. I gave up, but the next time my brother turned it on i looked carefully to see what he did for the machine to work and saw it! “win.com”! And before me, on that 14″ full of color 640×480 monitor I finally saw “Windows 3.1″ - Yes! Victory!

I had an attempt.. which got stumbled on lack of whatever.. it had good intentions.. I guess. I left the try beneath..

It started from this: (even more details then “Pirates of Silicon Valley” with add-ons from people behind the curtain)
Microsoft, Apple and Xerox - The History of the Graphical User Interface

I’ve started my PC experience with a 386 computer, with 1Mb of RAM a quarter of a Mb video on board, running Ms DOS and Windows 3.1
That computer was meant for my my brother who actually knew something about it and was starting high-school in a computer science oriented class. I wasn’t yet in my teens and knew pretty much no more English than okay, are you ok?, no, good or some language similarities like start, stop, button, install and maybe others.
Maybe I had heard about it or saw something on tv which at that time i have no idea how much I had understood, but there it was and so I’ve started to see and understand the hardware and software theory thing, the operating system thing. I’ve started to get into settings, installing, personalizing and strangely enough only later editing and later on starting to ponder about the creating part.

Am luat însfârşit monitorul. Nu este nici unul din cele 3 din postul anterior, este mai bun decât toate de acolo defapt (cică). Este tot ce mă aşteptam să fie chiar şi mai mult (un pixel mort, dar nu îl vezi decât dacă îl cauţi, nu mă deranjează decât în subconştient - este în dreapta unde am paletele şi tools-urile).

Este vorba de Samsung 223BW. E mai bun decât Samsung-ul iniţial (206BW), deşi e cu 3ms întârziat, pentru că are contrastul ceva mai bun (şi e super) şi e mai mare, iar 5 ms refresh în loc de 2 ms zice lumea că nu le simţi, apoi cel mai important (şi care mi-a dat o grămadă de bătaie de cap până să găsesc soluţia) acest model de Samsung nu este supus riscului loteriei seriilor - la care 206BW şi fratele lui mai mare 226BW au ruşinat Samsungul foarte disgraţios. Apoi e mai bun decât LG-urile deoarece cât le-am văzut în magazine lângă Samsunguri m-au făcut doar să-mi dau seama că au meritat bănuţii în plus.