my first computer was a ABC 80 Luxor Z80 with 16K RAM 1977, it cost in those days the equivalent of 2000 US. I spent lot of time hacking in listings in BASIC and learned programming that way. Then around 1986 I got a PC taiwanese clone with no hard drive but with a 5"1/4 floppy drive. Later that year I got a discarded 10Mb harddrive from Ericsson - yes they did PC's back then) but it was damaged and had only 7MB usuable bytes, but for me that was enormous! Remember borland turbo basic/ turbo pascal, now that was real compilers!

what set aside doom to the other fps programs was that it was the first fps shareware that allowed for network playing - that was made it so fun.