Not sure if PC and Software Support is the place where this should be, or if this has been done already, but what was the first computer you ever used?
Was it one of those plastic, boxy computers with green pixels? Or was it higher-tech than that?
I believe it was a Tandy 1000. They were so excited, as it was the wave over the future. It could play games and print off documents on its loud dot matrix printer... and I was confused as to why they were so excited about trying to get me excited about it as well. I plunked at the keys for a bit, typed a letter, then promptly forgot about the hoopla surrounding computers.
A DellXPS laptop. It was 32bit, I broke part of the computer keyboard, so it's sorta broken, and it's really slow sometimes. And the mouse pad will shutoff sometimes. I can get a picture later
My first was a Commodore 64. I loved that thing. Heck, I still love them. I use CCS64 to emulate them on the PC so I can still play all my old favorite games on it.
I believe it was a Tandy 1000. They were so excited, as it was the wave over the future. It could play games and print off documents on its loud dot matrix printer... and I was confused as to why they were so excited about trying to get me excited about it as well. I plunked at the keys for a bit, typed a letter, then promptly forgot about the hoopla surrounding computers.
Me too. My first "IBM compatible" PC was a Tandy 1000 EX. I had a grand time going through the DOS 2.01 disk and running each command to learn what it does. That and using Big Blue Disk, the software based "magazine" and playing Zaxxon and Moon Patrol lol.
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The first computer I ever used was Gateway of some form or flavour many moons ago. I was real little but I remember it was running Windows 98. Now the first computer I ever could call mine was a custom built Gateway that ran Vista. It wasn't the fastest and was certainly out of date, but the guy who built it could Frankenstein a computer from yesteryear into something acceptable.
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There is no fortress so strong, but it might be taken, if an ass laden with gold was brought to the gate. ~Philip of Macedon.
In seventh grade, 1977-78, I remember making punch cards for a computer that was at least the size of the desk I'm sitting at now. Unfortunately I don't remember what we had the computer do. Then in high school we learned basic programming on an Apple IIe.
Boxy CRT monitor that needs degaussing, 1gb RAM, pretty sure it was less than 2ghz processor and the mouse was one of those with balls instead of the laser or whatever they use now.
Not sure about the GPU, it's been way too long and I'm not in the mood to dig through the backroom.
Can't even remember... I started using when I was 4 years old... It was a huge piece of box, where there was no such thing as "USB flash drives"! There was a place to insert CD and Floppy Disk, and an audio jack! Running on a beautiful Windows 98 with a memory ram 512MB. Those were the days.
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I always wondered why did I learnt to code. But, I am too busy debugging.
Can't even remember... I started using when I was 4 years old... It was a huge piece of box, where there was no such thing as "USB flash drives"! There was a place to insert CD and Floppy Disk, and an audio jack! Running on a beautiful Windows 98 with a memory ram 512MB. Those were the days.
LOL when I was a kid we only had floppy disks and a black and white mac. I remember as I got older it took like 15 floppy disks to install Photoshop lol lol.
Not sure if PC and Software Support is the place where this should be, or if this has been done already, but what was the first computer you ever used?
Was it one of those plastic, boxy computers with green pixels? Or was it higher-tech than that?
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My dad's Gateway from the 90's, super slow by today's standards but freaking fast at the time.
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere,
But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
I believe it was a Tandy 1000. They were so excited, as it was the wave over the future. It could play games and print off documents on its loud dot matrix printer... and I was confused as to why they were so excited about trying to get me excited about it as well. I plunked at the keys for a bit, typed a letter, then promptly forgot about the hoopla surrounding computers.
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A DellXPS laptop. It was 32bit, I broke part of the computer keyboard, so it's sorta broken, and it's really slow sometimes. And the mouse pad will shutoff sometimes. I can get a picture later
My first was a Commodore 64. I loved that thing. Heck, I still love them. I use CCS64 to emulate them on the PC so I can still play all my old favorite games on it.
Me too. My first "IBM compatible" PC was a Tandy 1000 EX. I had a grand time going through the DOS 2.01 disk and running each command to learn what it does. That and using Big Blue Disk, the software based "magazine" and playing Zaxxon and Moon Patrol lol.
The first computer I ever used was Gateway of some form or flavour many moons ago. I was real little but I remember it was running Windows 98. Now the first computer I ever could call mine was a custom built Gateway that ran Vista. It wasn't the fastest and was certainly out of date, but the guy who built it could Frankenstein a computer from yesteryear into something acceptable.
There is no fortress so strong, but it might be taken, if an ass laden with gold was brought to the gate. ~Philip of Macedon.
In seventh grade, 1977-78, I remember making punch cards for a computer that was at least the size of the desk I'm sitting at now. Unfortunately I don't remember what we had the computer do. Then in high school we learned basic programming on an Apple IIe.
Boxy CRT monitor that needs degaussing, 1gb RAM, pretty sure it was less than 2ghz processor and the mouse was one of those with balls instead of the laser or whatever they use now.
Not sure about the GPU, it's been way too long and I'm not in the mood to dig through the backroom.
Should be ten years old already.
Can't even remember... I started using when I was 4 years old... It was a huge piece of box, where there was no such thing as "USB flash drives"! There was a place to insert CD and Floppy Disk, and an audio jack! Running on a beautiful Windows 98 with a memory ram 512MB. Those were the days.
An old Hewlett-Packard machine of some sort. Either that or some old beige relic.
I post pretty rarely nowadays. Gosh, I wish this place weren't so... empty...
It was a McIntosh with only one button on the mouse. The apple logo was colored
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I think mine was a Dell or an eMachines computer that ran Windows XP.
I think Windows 95...
Macintosh Plus (1986)
LOL when I was a kid we only had floppy disks and a black and white mac. I remember as I got older it took like 15 floppy disks to install Photoshop lol lol.