I am no technophobe, though, I have been a technoholic since 1994   when I first purchased a PC, that too a 486DX2 with a measly 4mb of ram, with no HDD. The machine cost me   about Rs. 30000/- or about $600. The OS that time was MS DOS, which needed a FDD every time to boot it up. Needless to say this mean machine, a Hewlett Packard with a Cirrus CPU catered to my everyday task. In no time however I felt the need of a HDD, so I invested a fortune, about $150 for a 640mb drive, an...