For a short time there was a Shareware Store next to Cub Foods I used to do my weekly groceries, in Arlington Heights IL. One day I walked in there to see if I could upgrade the 4 MB RAM for my 486DX2 AutoCAD workstation. Then I saw they had 5.25 floppies with Slackware on it. I bought them, and I installed them to the Compaq.

Shortly after I subscribed to Walnut Creek CD-ROM newsgroups archives, I ditched my Visual Basic 1.0 MS-DOS install and converted it all to Slackware, TCL-TK, and other GUI programming. I kept my Borland Turbo C and Assembler workstations.

I do not play games anymore, my games of Tropico, Railroad Tycoon and Civ3 are from a bygone era. I miss them sometimes, but that's all.

These days I build GNU/Debian infra and Fediverse nodes. Far more rewarding than playing games, and they cost less.