My Father and my Mothers 2 brothers had their own TV,Radio & antenna store in the middle of Bollebygd. Here in the early 80:s I spend quite many Saturdays due to that my mother were working and my father had the store open until 12:00 when most of the stores closed. Here I pricetaged music-cassettes videotapes and I had the luxury to borrow one of the Nintendo Nes stations with some games during the weekend, this was new machines, maybe this was one of the things that taught me to be careful with things I don't know?! On the Saturday I unpacked the Nes and played with it made suggestions which games was probably going to be a hit so they could order them in to the shop. (Like Super Mario Bros! :) Zelda and others. On the Sunday evening it was time to repack the game n it's package... My first TV was a SABA ca 20" in 1981. And in 1982-83 we installed a satellite dish at home.. So I guess you could say I grow up with the home-electronics changed models quite often.

When I were 12 years old I borrowed my first computer! This was around 1989 but earlier in 1986 one of my friends got his first computer from his Father the very well known Commodore 64! Later on he replaced the cassettedrive with a floppydrive this was big news in those days we even went home to his home one day to bring the computer with us to school it must have taken several hours before we got it to the class room and when he had the first program loaded we were the only one left in the school... (time goes quickly when you have fun :)...

Anyway later he bought the Amiga 500 1987 or in 1998. This was something really different! What a machine even today over 10 years later I'm still amazed about the power this machine was capable of.

So 1989 the 22 august me and my father went to a TV-shop in Varberg a small town near the ocean on the westcoast in Sweden. (My family had our caravan in Björkäng small tourist "village" near by Falkenberg and Varberg.).

This day I bought my Amiga 500 with a power office application called Appetizer, some 20 games on 2 floppy's and Super Oswald (some Ice-Bear who's mission was to jump between ice blocks and it had some great Danish comments ;). And I bought a full priced game called Pirates.

When I wasn't using the computer I was reading, no not some novel or other boring book it was the C64/C128/Amiga magazine: Computermagazine or Datormagasin as the real name was in Swedish.

The years went by, in 1990 my friend bought a modem with amazing 300 baud, I myself bought me the well known Supra 2400 modem, it had quite nice looks to black plastic in the front and in the back in the middle it was covered by aluminum.. _The_ Ferrari & Rolls Royce of modems were the USRobotics HST "huge like a A4" but it was way to expensive in 1990. In 1991 the thunder took my modem for a trip that ended in total disaster, this meant I couldn't call my local BBS:s in area code 033, 0320... For you who never have heard of the word BBS it stands for Bulletin Board System in the early 90-s this was a place in ANSI and ASCII graphics they were fast and often local meeting places or people called longdistans. There was and still is a giant network called Fidonet Looks almost like the internet-newgroups.. But there were not so many strange groups and more local groups... Anyway I bought a faster modem Called Supra 2400 plus! This modem was suppose to be able to transfer files with the amazing speed of 9600 baud!!! Well this was not really the case it was a standard modem with some compression and error protocol mnp5 and this did some nice kick in the right direction but nothing like the great modem everyone was dreaming about USRobotics HST...

Then suddenly everything changed not everything.. I had been saving money for over a year! I had the cash to by _the_ modem! No I didn't by the HST(14.4k) there were a new modem hat had Just been released in 1992 USRobotic Dualstandard V.small 16.8k yes that's right more speed and not the size of a A4 :) rather A5.. The prize tag was high something like 1400$ in 1992 almost 10000 Skr, I got it a little cheaper anyway it was allot of money! My friend bought himself a USRobotics HST and I must say lucky him the modem didn't work correctly :) So he got a Duastandard for free and like me he is still using the same modem today when all the rest has changed their modem 3 times these almost to high quality modems always works, if there is a problem with the connection you can almost always count out the Dualstandard because it's never the problem :) Now that is quality (no flashing strobe ARQ like the ACCESS and others..)..

1990 I started to use XT machines in school they were so slow and the CGA graphics was not like the graphics on the amiga but things changed when one of the machines were upgraded to 386/25 MHz and 4 Mb ram. Still running DOS but also Windows 3.0 and Microsoft Word 2.0. This was something different from the office programs there were for the Amiga, but still that was all for now. By the way with this computer they had bought a Canon 48 bubblejet printer gosh was this printer fast, quiet and the printouts were smooth and with high contrast not like my color Matrix printer I bought in 1991. It was expensive and fast with Color! (It's a shame I've not used it more then I did :/) Star LC-200..

In 1993 I bought my first PC it was something from Hell not that it was making troubles or something like that no, it was fast like hell ?! ;).. In those days a 486-dx2/66 8 Mb ram and 345 Mb HD was more then enough (at the same time there was still normal to by 386 with 16,20,25,33 or 40 MHz and _the_ standard HD was about 105 Mb or later 210Mb) But there was also 486 sx20,sx25,dx33,dx50,dx2-50:s around my computer was quite fast for a couple of years, I bought 16 Mb ram added 425Mb HD and Just after that I bought 16 Mb one of the major memory makers in Asia had a fire in one of their factories this made the memory prices to go sky high I took almost a year before all the other computers had got 16 Mb memory so that was one of the benefits of fire you could say ;) under this time I had gone from DOS & Windows 3.1 to DOS and Wind 3.11 but I ran as fast as I could over to OS/2 2.0 now this was and if you ask me is the best OS I have ever owned. I think I installed it with 30 floppies :).

My first CD-ROM had the strange speed of 3X... But it worked perfectly to install Warp (OS/2 3.0) on my computer no more 500 floppy installation ;) when running OS/2 I also started running my own BBS ok I had started a couple of years earlier with my Amiga and 3 floppy drives but this was never the same as a 425 Mb HD :). First it was called 98-Oktan later I changed the name to CYbERNETiCA.

In 1996 my computer was getting a bit slow so in 1997 I bought myself a new powerstation ;) Pentium Pro 200 with 64 Mb ram and 3,8 Gb HD! (The old 486 had been upgraded with first 425 and later another 1,6Gb). This machine kicked butt! ;) And it still Kicks quite well I think... In March I bought myself a new monitor, my 15" was replaced with a 19" Hitachi CM-752 great monitor I must say! Later in the early June I bought a computer for my parents so they could start learning something about computer t was a PII-233 in the same time I bought myself a Matrox Millenium 2 card which I half a year later switched with my S3 card in the PII and replaced with my P-Pro so my parents could use this machine instead. After I had taken over the PII I took the II-233 to 350 MHz and it has been running overclocked since then :).