My addiction started in an interesting way
I am addicted to computers now. My addiction started in an interesting way. At that time I was in a job and I was serving in a rural district. Computers were almost unknown to people. A few times I saw some people working in computers while I went to metro cities for some business and imagined once I will also work on it. But could not find a way. Once one of my subordinate told that in the nearby polytechnic school a computer training is being started but the course was for the students only. Immediately I contacted them and I had to take the help of one influential and powerful person. As the instructors were of my age or a bit junior a very friendly relationship grew up. There was no fixed time to attend classes or restriction on duration of practice as was applicable to others. I used to go there in the morning, attended office and after my office hours I again joined the class in the evening. The computers were with Intel 80286, 80386 and only one was 80486 processors, b/w monitor and some have to be booted with a 5.25” floppy and only DOS could be run. The difficult problems of the students were discussed in my presence and gradually I started solving them. After the 6 month course I felt so interested that I took a bank loan and bought a PC with 80486 100 MHz processor. It had no HDD. I had to boot it with a floppy, create a RAM drive, load FoxPro files there and I saved my files in 3.5” floppy. Now all these feel like a dream.