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I got lucky when I started in the IT world.
The company I got hired by bought me a pentium 133 w/800MB hard drive and a ATI Mach 64, 3D Studio Rev 4, Photoshop 2.5, and a number of other graphics apps so I could work from home.
A year later, our parent company was doing poorly, so they dropped our project, and literally told all the employees (all 4 of us) to keep everything, they were going to write it off on their taxes. I have been upgrading most of the software ever since.
(I still have the 133, it's currently a recipe server under my kitchen counter in case I forget how to make something)
I haven't done much professional graphics work since about 98, but I still enjoy it as a hobby, and one of the non-adult companies I'm affiliated with is fleshing out an MMORPG. We'll see how that turns out.
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