I broke down…  With work and everything I decided to pickup a PC based system.  The game selection was so big and I started to play Ultima Online.  You can’t fault me for playing UO.  18+ years later and I still play it today.  But there was hope…

I still wanted to play around with a Mac and I was getting into Linux based systems.  I ran into Yellow Dog Linux and it supported Macintosh based systems.  I played around with a couple of used one but I finally ended up on a PowerMac 8550/200.  I had YDL running on this for some time and ended up cutting my teeth on running a website, database and what not.