The IBM PC was introduced to the world on August 12, 1981. Help celebrate its 20th birthday by telling us how you joined - or managed to swerve - the PC revolution and what it did to your life.
E-mail entries (700 words maximum - anything more than 700 wordswill be disqualified) to your net editor Chris Barton (
The prize is a Netvista A40i Microtower with Pentium III processor, 30GB hard disk, 128MB of memory, built-in CD Writer, Windows ME and a 17in screen. The winning essay will be published in your net on September 4.
