Your first time (not what you think XD)

[Ergates]

Not sure where to post this, move if necessary biggrin

About computers. I got my first one when I was 40, that's 14 years ago. Windows '98 blaugh I just escaped having to know DOS. I had it for 8 years! My current PC is Windows XP, on it's 3rd mouse, 3rd printer, 2nd monitor, 2nd disc drive (which I installed myself cool , and almost ready for the bin. I'll miss it. Next stop will be very soon, Windows 7 I suppose, new bells and whistles to get used to. I think I've done very well to have only 2 PCs in 14 years!

What's your computing story? Are you anciently techie or technically challenged? I've learned a lot, but some of it is obsolete now.  

[purpleravenhawk]

I guess I'm anciently techie. whee I've been using computer for about 15 years now too. I've worked hard to amass knowledge about them and stay current. I'd be lost without mine.  

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purpleravenhawk

I guess I'm anciently techie. whee I've been using computer for about 15 years now too. I've worked hard to amass knowledge about them and stay current. I'd be lost without mine.

Staying current with technology in general is getting more difficult gonk It's so fast! And I'm slowing down xp rofl  

[purpleravenhawk]

That's true. 3nodding There's something new on the market every day. It's impossible to keep up with everything in detail. I keep wondering when we'll hit a wall.  

[Nei1]

I started with a TI-99/4A when I was about 3 or 4, I played games on it. smile

Next my dad brought home a Tandy 1000 SX, I played games with that one too but I learned a lot of DOS.

Then he got a Bondwell B310, a heavy laptop with a whooping 2 megs of RAM and a whole 40 meg drive.

We progressed though the time with a new computer with lighter and smaller pieces, to way more powerful machines. As I'm getting older, I find it harder to keep up with latest technology as Liadan says.  

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Nei1

I started with a TI-99/4A when I was about 3 or 4, I played games on it. smile

Next my dad brought home a Tandy 1000 SX, I played games with that one too but I learned a lot of DOS.

Then he got a Bondwell B310, a heavy laptop with a whooping 2 megs of RAM and a whole 40 meg drive.

We progressed though the time with a new computer with lighter and smaller pieces, to way more powerful machines. As I'm getting older, I find it harder to keep up with latest technology as Liadan says.

I've never even heard of those things lol although I do have a faint memory of playing Pong on a friends tv screen, so I guess Atari was the first for me. Not even colour tv then xd

Oh, I changed my username, by the way. Was An Liadan.  

[Nei1]

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Nei1

I started with a TI-99/4A when I was about 3 or 4, I played games on it. smile

Next my dad brought home a Tandy 1000 SX, I played games with that one too but I learned a lot of DOS.

Then he got a Bondwell B310, a heavy laptop with a whooping 2 megs of RAM and a whole 40 meg drive.

We progressed though the time with a new computer with lighter and smaller pieces, to way more powerful machines. As I'm getting older, I find it harder to keep up with latest technology as Liadan says.

I've never even heard of those things lol although I do have a faint memory of playing Pong on a friends tv screen, so I guess Atari was the first for me. Not even colour tv then xd

Oh, I changed my username, by the way. Was An Liadan.

The Ti99/4a looked sort of like this.



The Tandy was this.

And the Bondwell ...  

[Ergates]

Nei1

Ergates

Nei1

I started with a TI-99/4A when I was about 3 or 4, I played games on it. smile

Next my dad brought home a Tandy 1000 SX, I played games with that one too but I learned a lot of DOS.

Then he got a Bondwell B310, a heavy laptop with a whooping 2 megs of RAM and a whole 40 meg drive.

We progressed though the time with a new computer with lighter and smaller pieces, to way more powerful machines. As I'm getting older, I find it harder to keep up with latest technology as Liadan says.

I've never even heard of those things lol although I do have a faint memory of playing Pong on a friends tv screen, so I guess Atari was the first for me. Not even colour tv then xd

Oh, I changed my username, by the way. Was An Liadan.

The Ti99/4a looked sort of like this.



The Tandy was this.

And the Bondwell ...

Oh wow. Just........wow! xd  

[Mayu-Makita]

I still have my atari, I need a need adapter so I can hook it up again......

I remember my parents talking about computers, but my first time as 2001 when I started college at 27yrs old. I'm accidentally a techyish. I think. My friend swear I understand and can do more than he who was raised on one can. I just refuse to work on anything that will use electricity, a bit fear, but mostly bad experiences  

[Penny Parker]

I am so new. Never had a full pc. My first was/is my laptop. redface  

[Dark Maverick423]

My first counsel was that old NES the big cube one

but since we are talking bout PC mine was a Mac. i was about 6 or 7 yrs old when i got it and have been surrounded by computers ever since. Hmm lets see that makes it about 17 or 18 years of having my own compy. of course updating as time went on

Hmm my fav game back in the old day was System Shock. that game was scary fun!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZMD_eCpEo one of the game's most famous quote XD

Good at Dos, when i was in high school i would mess with teachers by sending them Texts via DOS straight to their computer. the look on their face when they got a message from me Ooooo priceless XD they would freak out. i miss highshool at times XD  

[Witchiepoo0]

I guess I must be tech saavy. I began using computers back in the days of DOS in high school. I learned more about computers through helping in a microsoft grant lab in my childrens elementary school. I then began working for the school district after all my children were either in middle or high school and received a good amount of training for my job. Then I enrolled in college via online courses. This all keeps me on the computer continuously.  

[FireSpark]

The first computer I was "old enough" to manage on my own was the ubiquitous Commodore-64, back in 1986. The first cmoputer that was "mine", was an Amiga 1000(another Commodore product for those that are curious), that had served as the family computer from 1988 - 1993, and was then given to me. And that thing could still run pretty good too. By the time I graduated from high school in 1997, the family computer was upgrading again, and I was given a newer Mac-thing, while the old Amiga was handed off to a younger brother.

The last I saw of it was back in 2002, and as far as I know is still in someone's attic. I wonder if I could find it again? Just to see if it would boot.  

[B A S T A R D]

Mine was in 1985, when I was 5 and my dad was insistant on me learning DOS. He didn't really have anything a 5 year old would be interested in but I liked making folders and text documents. Later, down the road I would end up getting Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a nonsensically difficult Rescue Rangers game for it.  

[Queen Flutterby]

I got my first "laptop" about 5 years ago. When I was in high school, I saw my first PC, I think, and we were learning DOS I guess. Didn't get much out of that but I remember when my husband got us all our first PC and we were playing "Police Quest". The one where you type in what you want him to do. Then there was "King's Quest" and then a few years later before there was an internet, we had a "Bulletin Board" and we would use our phone line and hook it up to our modem to hook up with other people who had "Bulletin Boards". So we had the first form of the internet before it WAS the internet. Our phone would ring and then you could see other people browsing around on your bulletin board and spy on them!. razz My family would ask why they would get that funny sound in their ear when they tried calling us sometimes. That makes me feel so old to think about!