Window 7 Pro on all of them except the Asus ran Kali, so did my Ps3 (Dual Boot)All MS Windows based?
Don't remember how to use one of these anymore.
Kinda reminds me of the dreaded PEBCAC error I had to tell people I "fixed".Get this: That's when I started telling these sweet old dolls that to copy and paste, just highlight the text, right-click and choose 'Copy.' That puts the text in the mouse so you can put it wherever you want. And it worked.
Now that is one sexy dinosaur!Ohio Scientific 4P, 64K Memory, Z80 processor, CPM Operating System, 180K 8" floppy disk drive
My Dad used to check my AP Calculus homework with one, Except his was circular.Don't remember how to use one of these anymore.
Ruh-ro.The first computer I ever personally owned was fairly recent. It was a cheap Emachines laptop I bought around 2009-2010 on Black Friday at Walmart for like $200. Lasted me for a couple years and last year I got another laptop that I forget at the moment.
I was like 24ish when I bought my first computer lol, but Ive had computers in my household since as early as I can remember. I was about 5 and I remember my dad always working on computers and my mom always playing games. Some of my fondest early childhood memories are sitting next to my mom watching her play games like Ultima 7 and Might and Magic. Ultima 7 has a special place for me, I even bought a copy a bunch of years ago and play it from time to time.
I remember we got a state of the art Sony Vaio when they were the absolute shit and cost like $2000+. This was when the original Napster was brand new and I had a little side business in middle school burning people mix CDs for $5 a pop. I remember my sister tried to get into it and accidently added the entire computers file directory to the Napster program and I deleted it all from Napster thinking it would just delete it from Napster...well it deleted the files completely. Dad was PISSED when he got home to a black screened computer with no files. Yea, we werent allowed to use the computer for a long time after that lol
My first two were a Commodore 64, and a TI 99 (I think that's what it was called). My first PC was a Gateway 386Sx that I upgraded to a 386 DX66. The next two comps I had I built myself ( a Pentium 2, and an AMD Athlon) Now using an AMD A6-3620 x64 machine. I have had a computer in one form or another since 1982.
I have many fond memories of sitting up late at night coding on my Commodore 64 and playing around on the local BBS at a blazing 300 baud. My, how times have changed!That's about when I started too.
Worked in a distributors' warehouse, so they gave us cheap pricing on the goods.
Super cheap it turned out... I bought a Ti 99/4A and took it home. They screwed up and shipped me a second one. They didn't even care... said keep it. LOL.
Programs on cassette tape... booyah. Anyone see one of those Panasonic tape players anymore?
Too many home comps since then to remember... probably fifteen or so.
The first computer I ever personally owned was fairly recent. It was a cheap Emachines laptop I bought around 2009-2010 on Black Friday at Walmart for like $200. Lasted me for a couple years and last year I got another laptop that I forget at the moment.
I was like 24ish when I bought my first computer lol, but Ive had computers in my household since as early as I can remember. I was about 5 and I remember my dad always working on computers and my mom always playing games. Some of my fondest early childhood memories are sitting next to my mom watching her play games like Ultima 7 and Might and Magic. Ultima 7 has a special place for me, I even bought a copy a bunch of years ago and play it from time to time.
I remember we got a state of the art Sony Vaio when they were the absolute shit and cost like $2000+. This was when the original Napster was brand new and I had a little side business in middle school burning people mix CDs for $5 a pop. I remember my sister tried to get into it and accidently added the entire computers file directory to the Napster program and I deleted it all from Napster thinking it would just delete it from Napster...well it deleted the files completely. Dad was PISSED when he got home to a black screened computer with no files. Yea, we werent allowed to use the computer for a long time after that lol
Yup, 300 baud was my first modem speed, also. You could actually read text files as they came through using the X-Modem protocol.at a blazing 300 baud. My, how times have changed!
Yup, 300 baud was my first modem speed, also. You could actually read text files as they came through using the X-Modem protocol.
playing around on the local BBS
Yeah, I used to run a BBS in the very early 90's called "Metropolis Online!" using PCBoard v14.5 by Clark Development. Man, those were some good times! I was the liaison hub for RIME between Boston and western Massachusetts. For some reason, FidoNet never really grabbed my attention.text BBS's
I can remember when having a 1200 baud modem was like having a cable modem today.I could read the scroll at 1200 bps; had a friend who could read it at 2400!
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Running on a very nice though not quite top of the line PC now, bought it for games, and of course a few months later, I simply stopped playing, too much else going on. Surprisingly I shopped out all the parts, was ready to order and build and thought I'd just price check it against what I could buy prebuilt... saved $100 and got a free monitor by going through ibuypower... can't argue with that.My Progression was:
- Tandy TRS-80 CoCo II - not alive yet
- Commodore 64 (Original Style) -not alive yet
- Commodore 64 (Updated Style) - not alive yet
- Amiga 500 - not alive yet
- 386DX-40 Running MS-Dos 3.0/Windows 3.0 - this is about where I started though hell if I know what the thing was but there's pictures of me in my undies at age like 3/4 on it with Dos clearly running
- Turned the above into a Linux Box running Linux 0.99 Beta-PL14 (Slackware Distro) - didn't touch linux until college, I was always about games which meant windows
- Multiple MS Windows based computers since then
- FUTURE: SICK of MS Windows - Intend to get a Mac desktop (I need to sell $2500 worth of coils, ASAP)
Yeah, I used to run a BBS in the very early 90's called "Metropolis Online!" using PCBoard v14.5 by Clark Development. Man, those were some good times! I was the liaison hub for RIME between Boston and western Massachusetts. For some reason, FidoNet never really grabbed my attention.
Yeah, I used to run a BBS in the very early 90's called "Metropolis Online!" using PCBoard v14.5 by Clark Development. Man, those were some good times! I was the liaison hub for RIME between Boston and western Massachusetts. For some reason, FidoNet never really grabbed my attention.
I can remember when having a 1200 baud modem was like having a cable modem today.
Wait for Google Fiber, Im hearing soon to be 700mbps-1GBPS speeds...I started out with a 2400; ran a BBS on that for quite some time, and FINALLY got a 9600 when they got cheap after everyone else was at 14.4. I was offline for a few years, and when i discovered the internet in '99, my first was a 14.4, but soon discovered that a 14.4 is just not up to a graphical interface -- even the 56k I finally got had a hard time with it! When I first got DSL, I was all WOOHOO! by the time we moved and I got cable internet at 6mbps, I thought DSL was slow (1.5mbps I think). Now I'm at 125mbps and I can't figure out how I endured all those slower interfaces.
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Wait for Google Fiber, Im hearing soon to be 700mbps-1GBPS speeds...
Well for the price its pretty ridiculously good, I was paying 200+ a month for comcast and I was supposed to be getting 105/mbps and I was only getting 60mbps, they didnt have a reason and/oir a excuse and the following months I had them rack up $800 of devt out of no where. Im with Fair Point right now with a steady 25mbps and I am pretty impatient for Google Fiber or Fios to come to the area....Hell Im looking forward to 4G which was supposed to be up almost 2 years ago here...Still be limited to the speed of the server that the site is on, though. When I had a really slow modem, I didn't worry about that -- when I finally got a faster connection, I had to find a webhost with fast MySQL servers.
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Well for the price its pretty ridiculously good, I was paying 200+ a month for comcast and I was supposed to be getting 105/mbps and I was only getting 60mbps, they didnt have a reason and/oir a excuse and the following months I had them rack up $800 of devt out of no where. Im with Fair Point right now with a steady 25mbps and I am pretty impatient for Google Fiber or Fios to come to the area....Hell Im looking forward to 4G which was supposed to be up almost 2 years ago here...
Be very careful closing with them, act like you will be staying forever...if you like your credit numbers how they are and not owing them for anything...I really wish someone would buy them out and just burn everything to the ground.Comcast is truly the antichrist. We're currently paying them about $211/mo, but as soon as our promo deal for $2/mo cinemax runs out, next month I think, I'm switching back to DirecTV and just keeping comcast for the internet and phone.
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I ran TAG, Telegard, Maximus, and finally Renegade, which was a local port of Telegard with a few extra features -- I LOOOOOOOOOVED fidonet, ran FrontDoor to get echomaill; in fact I made quite a tidy sum over a few years' time, setting up Frontdoor for other people, or installing high-speed UARTs for them and setting up the FOSSIL driver to lock the port at 19.2k. Ah, those were the days.
Will you marry me?
Comcast is truly the antichrist. We're currently paying them about $211/mo, but as soon as our promo deal for $2/mo cinemax runs out, next month I think, I'm switching back to DirecTV and just keeping comcast for the internet and phone.
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Naw naw naw, the worst, my coworker...He's rather indifferent to my computer thing, until he starts cussing at Windows and I have to go figure out what the problem is and pacify him.
Shoulda seen me trying to explain to my mom why she couldn't retrieve old data from a crashed hard drive.
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The first programming experience I've had was with my father's Sinclair ZX81. My father was an old school computer guy. Therefore, he wrote his own OS (in machine code) to be loaded from a tape, in order to be able to access a single density 8" floppy drive, that he had hooked up to it.My first two were a Commodore 64, and a TI 99 (I think that's what it was called). My first PC was a Gateway 386Sx that I upgraded to a 386 DX66. The next two comps I had I built myself ( a Pentium 2, and an AMD Athlon) Now using an AMD A6-3620 x64 machine. I have had a computer in one form or another since 1982.
The roles are reversed in my house. My wife is asking me for help, when anything is wrong with her computer, or "smart" phone (also running Windows).He's rather indifferent to my computer thing, until he starts cussing at Windows and I have to go figure out what the problem is and pacify him.
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The roles are reversed in my house. My wife is asking me for help, when anything is wrong with her computer, or "smart" phone (also running Windows).
If it were just my computer, I'd be running Linux instead of Windows. BTW, who came up with the name Windows? They should have called it Reboot instead.
Lots of ID-10-T errors from your husband?I always thought they should have just named it "Beta" since we're the beta testers for their buggy software.
I've given a lot of thought to Linux; I have to interact with it to some degree, with my webhost, but truthfully, I'm just not interested in learning yet another command-prompt OS; DOS took me a WHILE, and I really didn't have much else going on at the time other than changing diapers. And now I've spent all these years learning how to make Windows do my bidding, so I'll stick with it.
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(ETA: I don't do mobile phones; my husband is on his own with that. He's a www-dot-idiot, and I'm a non-cell-speaker. )
Lots of ID-10-T errors from your husband?
I'm the same way though, can't help but feel the complaints about windows are overexaggerated as I've not really had many problems. I mean Linux is amazing in it's own right, but worth the effort to perfect, ehh not for me yet. I did do quite a bit of dabbling with it out at college, mainly though in creating a flash drive where I could load my own Linux OS off of so I could go from computer to computer and have things set up just how I wanted, made it easy to bounce around and do work. Like having a thumb sized laptop on my keychain. I got through all my computer programming classes by mainly being the debugger for other groups of students (almost always group projects so I just got added to the list).