Techie Ran Up $40,000 Bill Trying To Download A Driver
The Register, Monday, November 10th, 2025
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'William,' who like many of you got his first taste of computers from behind the keyboard of a Commodore Amiga.
'I loved it!' he told Who, Me? 'I played games, music, and learned coding in BASIC and C.'
As the Amiga waned, and William entered the workforce, he took the plunge and bought a PC.
His Amiga upbringing meant he found Windows unsatisfactory, and decided to run IBM's OS/2 instead, partly because he preferred it and partly because it was the operating system in place at work.