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It  all started when my father threw out some old computers from his office. They were all in very good order, but missing a power supply in the back. I plugged it up to the extent I could without a power supply. My father had an ancient old 100 meg hard drive he said I could use.
That day we went to a computer store, the owner is a good  friend of dad's. We asked him if he had any old power supplies. He said he did, and gave me a third old computer, this time with a power supply and another Hard drive which I did not know the size of. I plugged up the 386 motherboard, this was one of the ones my father had given me.
I unfortunately plugged the power supply into the motherboard the wrong way round. Into a mother board there are two particular cables with different clips to all the other ones. You plug them into something that looks a little bit like this:

The two cables can plug into this two ways round. One way is to put the two ones that look red or orangey in the middle, and one is to put the two black ones in the middle. Unfortunately I put the two that look reddish together in the middle and on turning on, blew first the fuse to the power supply up, but also killed the motherboard. My father who is something of a computer expert found that I had not properly loaded the motherboard in, and had bent it, possibly killing it also. And he also found a screw in it which may have been killing some of the electrics inside it. Big Oops!!

We then, correctly this time, plugged up everything into the other motherboard, a slower 286 motherboard. We then discovered that, in plugging it in wrongly, I had also destroyed the bigger 100 meg hard drive, I then plugged in the smaller one and discovered it was a 41 meg hard drive. I was very happy. My father and I installed MS-DOS 6.22 but unfortunately this computer did not have a small disk drive. It had one of those old ones, big floppys, It took a long time to copy.
Thankfully my mothers machine had a big floppy drive. But even so, those big disks take a long time to get DOS onto, as they are very small.

I have now installed some games and also a dos word Processor. and I have named it Phoenix.

Text written on Phoenix Computer 1999
By Timothy Age 11
Image drawn in Blender by Timothy