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Was your family into computers?

My dad is a system engineer and my mom is a programmer analyst. So that covers both hardware and software aspects of computers 😀. Even my grandfather who can't speak a word of English is more knowledgable about computers than your average teenager.

I still have 2 P133 sitting around, 1 Apple II, 1 P200, a Sun SPARC, T-bred 2400+, 3 laptops, P3 650, and my comp listed below. I have drawers full of electronics and spare parts and more cases than computers. I'll take pictures when I get home.
 
Originally posted by: werk
Nice...uh...bunker.
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The rest of the house sucks. It's filled with expensive sht no one cares about. I'm scared just visiting because I think I'll break some something.

I like the bunker.
 
My family never was... my dad had a hard time buying me my first computer way back in the day...

They still arent... but they are the first to call me when one of the servers goes down... 🙂
 
no, my parents have a P133 IBM Aptiva at their house which gets turned on maybe once every few months. When my brother and I lived there, we had our own machines but that was it. Here my wife (an IT Admin person for work) doesn't touch a computer when she gets home. I work with one all day but I'm not a freak about it either. I have a feeling my kid will be though. Assuming a boy, as long as he gets out of the house with chicas and sports, it's all good.
 
Originally posted by: Amplifier
Can anyone one up that? There has to be someone here more gangster than us.
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My father's really the only one who was into computers; he designed and built a number of early computers and missile guidance systems. Here's one of the later (and smaller) systems that he built; I used to do the demos on these systems back when I was five, just to show that they were so simple to use a child could program and operate them.

He's been awarded more than eighty patents over the years; perhaps his most notable invention was the switching power supply, which is what's now used in any computer built in the last twenty years (and lots of other products as well).
 
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