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I'm father of a 10 years old kid. If he wants to run a server at 16, I will give him the electricity bills, a 20U rack, a cisco switch and a bunch of cables. Congratulations to the OP and their family.

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When I was a kid in the 90s my dad had raised money to buy a good car. When the time came, he bought a not so good car + a computer for me. I still remember installing windows 3.1 from 40 floppy disks

My memory says that win3.1 came on just 7 floppies. Did you install from 5.25 floppies?

Maybe 7 feels like 40 when you're 13.

40 is for Win95. Around 20+ for Warp 4.

I installed ESIX (Everex's SysV Unix) off of 40-something 3.5" floppies in the mid 90s. Naturally there were a couple of bad disks and the installation sat partially done for a few days while I awaited replacements to arrive in the mail.

Good one. I guess I had win 3.1 and upgraded to 95

IFMMSMV CD distr of '95 was around 48Mb, '98 (SE2 ?) around 100-110. With a bit of knowledge you could shrink the installed one to 35 and and 52 respectively.

Source: had a 486 with 40+120Mb HDDs

What if your kid wants to start a semiconductor fab in your basement?

(yes, these kids exist)

"We're gunna need a bigger basement" :)

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