I was about 6 or 7 years old, and the home computer wasn't much of a thing back then, and the 12 year old kid next door got a 386 DX, which was a huge deal, and he kept it in his bedroom! Lucky guy.
Anyway, his Dad loaded it up with some DOS games, which I would go over and watch him play. He would play Prince of Persia and let me watch. I would occasionally ask him if I could have a go.
He said I could only play if the TURBO button was set to OFF. I asked why and he said that it was to "save electricity". I would play PRINCE.EXE at a snails pace until he kicked me off, me being the determined kid from a non-computer owning household.
The upside is that their family had a cat (which was albino, deaf as a post, and eccentric as heck). They wouldn't let the cat inside (maybe to save on electricity) and the cat adopted us because we let it in. They moved and we kept the cat.
Anyway, his Dad loaded it up with some DOS games, which I would go over and watch him play. He would play Prince of Persia and let me watch. I would occasionally ask him if I could have a go.
He said I could only play if the TURBO button was set to OFF. I asked why and he said that it was to "save electricity". I would play PRINCE.EXE at a snails pace until he kicked me off, me being the determined kid from a non-computer owning household.
The upside is that their family had a cat (which was albino, deaf as a post, and eccentric as heck). They wouldn't let the cat inside (maybe to save on electricity) and the cat adopted us because we let it in. They moved and we kept the cat.