Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is preparing to enter retirement, signaling the end of an era for the corporation that brought us the Windows operating system. After 33 years with Microsoft, Gates is an icon of the technology world he helped to nurture. Remember your first computer? When floppy disks were enough to load programs on an old MS-DOS machine?

Now is a great time to look back on the computing past, before Windows Vista came about or Apple had operating systems named after cats. SirNigel shared a photo of himself as a child in 1970 and went on to say that the punch card computer his mother used is now on display in the British Museum. He used to doodle on the cards and play with a 10-key machine. Do you have a similar story? Tell us how your computing use has changed and how you think Gates affected the technology world. (Hey, maybe you have an offbeat take on Gates, like sherifosman.) Take a minute and share your story on iReport.com.

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