Ever since my father got me a computer, I’ve been nagging him to get me an internet connection. Back then, the internet was considered a ‘luxury item’ rather than a need. The only internet service available was dial-up. This entailed paying for internet and phone bills, which were not insignificant ...

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I have a emotional connect with this CD. It came with the book Using Visual C++ 5 (Special Edition). I still remember the day when I walked into a bookstore in Dadar(Mumbai) with my father and asked him to buy this book for me. I had recently become comfortable with Foxpro 2.5, and my next target wa ...

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It was summer of 1997, I was in the 9th grade. My father had promised to buy me a computer after the exams. This PC arrived when I was away at a summer camp. I was so excited to get back home and check it out. It was a Pentium machine, with 256 MB RAM, SoundBlaster card, SVGA display and a 80 GB HDD ...

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