First PC in 1980 (IBM single sided floppy, no HD), learned in my hotel room on the road... Have always installed and configured my own systems (saving 20-30% by mail order purchases). Sold and delivered to Haiti, a desktop video system in 1988 (thru USAID). I knew I could work computers when I was able to find and copy files, from the command line, as an armed mob was reported on their way(most of you won't even know the term "command line". I now capture, edit and convert to streaming video with NT4.0, PentiumPro 200MHZ, 16gigs of HD, SpeedRazor, Word-Access-Excell-Illustrator-Pagemaker-Corel, and do it well.