Win an IBM Netvista A40i worth $3600!

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 words will be disqualified) to your net editor Chris Barton (

chris_barton@nzherald.co.nz

) as text or Word attachment.

Closing date is Monday, August 27. Don't forget to include a contact phone number.

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.

Conditions of entry: 1: The competition is open to all readers of the New Zealand Herald other than employees of the Wilson and Horton group of companies and Accor Asia Pacific. 2: You may enter as many times as you wish. 3: The judge's decision on any aspect of the competition is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 4: The prize is as specified above. 5: The prize is not exchangeable for cash. 6: The winner must be prepared to be available for publicity purposes.