Story of My First PC
I remember my first computer clearly; I was only six years old. It was a “Sakhr” (MSX), and back then, it felt like a revolution. Like most children, I loved games, but my curiosity went deeper: I wanted to know how those games were built. Unfortunately, as a young child, I didn’t find the support needed to nurture that talent. My mother tried to help me, but my uncle, who was the only one who could have guided me, believed computers were a distraction from my studies and a hurdle to my future.
I never gave up. As a child, I refused to let the world of programming slip away. Life, school, and adolescence eventually took over, casting a shadow on my hobby; however, the fire never went out. When the era of the Pentium processor arrived, I insisted that my parents buy me a computer. I was persistent (perhaps even a bit annoying) until my grandmother finally gave my mother the money to buy it for me. I don’t have a photo of first PC but i found my second pc which was Pentium 4 computer.
in the year 2000, there was an incredibly foolish operating system called Windows Millennium (Me). It was constantly crashing and displaying the ‘Blue Screen of Death,’ which meant losing all the programs installed on your computer. People suffered because of this, and they had to reinstall the Windows system from scratch.
Consequently, everyone around me who loved games began asking for my help in restoring their computer systems. The task was not easy back then; sometimes, it required formatting the hard drive through DOS.
I love reading
During that period, I was a dedicated reader of computer magazines, seeking to develop my skills and keep my information up to date. I eventually came across an advertisement in one of those magazines for a program that could create a ‘mirror image’ of the hard drive. It claimed to be able to restore the Windows system and all your data in just one hour, which seemed truly amazing.
Since this software was not available in my country, I asked a friend of my older brother to purchase it for me while he was traveling to Jordan. Once I obtained it, I began telling my friends that I could restore the Windows system along with all their games in just two hours. At first, my closet friend asked me for test. After a few months, however, I had a line of customers waiting. One of the things I always made sure of was that the games functioned perfectly after the hard drive image was restored. As you see in following picure that i was testing the game. My parents, who had been my strongest critics, could hardly believe it when I began earning money through that program.
That passion I have for the world of computers is a flame that, had my family embraced and nurtured it when I was young, might have led me to become something even greater today. Regardless of that, who I am today is by the grace of God and then through my own struggle; I owe my success to no one but myself.
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