what was your first experience/interaction/introduction with computers

apm · 2012-05-19 16:52:02

this thread is a place for anyone to share their first computer moment
it can be operating a computer for the first time in a school/univesity or the unboxing of the first family desktop or pretty much anything that you did for the first time with a computer, if you are kind enough do try to post about computers / hardware you have owned over the years, it will be much appreciated.

p.s. just wanted a thread which could show how computers can be as rock solid companions as dogs

apm · 2012-05-19 17:00:29

my first experience was when i first deposited money at a local bank's branch office there i saw a powermac g3 running mac os 8 and an intel debian box,if i remember correctly

1. (2006-2010)my first computer was an assembled frankanstine's monster pentium 4(2.66ghz) box with 128mb of ram
a 17inch Lg monitor , a hp printer and umax scanner and some cheap branded keyboard, mouse and speakers

2. (feb2011-present) apple macbookpro with snoooow leopard rocked my world it is practically my wife.

3.(march2012-present) lenovo thinkpad x120e , this is my mistress if the macbookpro is my wife ,it is so rock solid it even took a pint of my sweat on its bare components, salute to it's durability.

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machinebacon · 2012-05-19 17:04:47

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -computer/

apm · 2012-05-19 17:09:50

this thread is about what was the first experience you had with a computer regardless of whom it was owned by it is not limited to your own first computers, but the first sighting of a computer you ever had.

machinebacon · 2012-05-19 17:12:45

apm wrote:

this thread is a place for anyone to share their first computer moment
it can be operating a computer for the first time in a school/univesity or the unboxing of the first family desktop or pretty much anything that you did for the first time with a computer, if you are kind enough do try to post about computers / hardware you have owned over the years, it will be much appreciated.

TitanMech · 2012-05-19 17:27:05

That thread's last post was in 2009!

Im not gonna be accused of necro-bumping that.

My parents first machine was waaaay back in 98/99 and it was a Packard Bell, it was beige, and had a pentium 4 cpu, 512mb ram, onboard graphics and sound, and a massive 21inch crt monitor with speakers built in.
It ran windows 98 before we upgraded to xp a few years later, and all i ever did was play star wars pod-racer on it smile

The hard drive in this computer i still have today, and i still use!!, it was a seagate barracuda 80GB, and at the time was the biggest drive they had, the fact that this drive is still as fast as when the machine was new really blows me away, and really goes to show that they dont make em like they used to.

About 8 years after my parents first bought it, they replaced it with a dell, and i got my hands on it, i replaced some internal components, like the opticol drive, and ram, so i could burn music, and keep up with intensive programs of the day, like winamp.

The really sad part is i dont have the machineanymore, and i heard older linux kernels like 2.4 ran amasing on pentium chips and it would be awesome to compare the benchmarks on crunchbang of my baby netbook to that dinosaur pc.

machinebacon · 2012-05-19 17:28:28

^ There's no "no necro-bumping" rule in the Off Topic section, only in Help & Support.

TitanMech · 2012-05-19 17:31:09

I still think its not good practice anywhere in the forum, besides with all the new members since that post, myself included we have a whole new bunch of people to post about their experiences, who will never have probably seen that older thread as it was "before their time"

machinebacon · 2012-05-19 17:32:20

Correct. That's why bumping it would have been okay.

TitanMech · 2012-05-19 17:39:02

Its just my opinion but i think only your own cries for help should be bumped.

Threads like this one should be like the conky/tint2 threads, whereby the just keep going, cause new users contribute to it, and it never ends.
Im not sure why such as great thread like the previous one seemed to die like that. Maybe because it wasnt sticky, so new ppl didnt see it.

machinebacon · 2012-05-19 17:42:49

About "bumping": It's really only valid for the Help & Support section: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … e-posting/ - and even there the own cries for help should contain new information.

But this was not the reason I posted the link. The OP asked for

post about computers / hardware you have owned over the years

so I linked the old thread, as it answers exactly this question.

TitanMech · 2012-05-19 17:44:41

I think the OP's intention was to start another thread whereby we all contribute, but the grammar got mixed up in translation so you posted that link

praest76 · 2012-05-19 17:59:42

This is a chance to start afresh and should probably be made a sticky.

Anyway, mine was a ZX Spectrum+ that Santa brought me back in the mid 80s. I got big books on basic programming and managed to learn next to nothing. Then I discovered games and spent the next few years doing that until it eventually packed in and was replaced with an Amiga 500.

VastOne · 2012-05-19 18:32:42

Not sure why there would ever be a need for a sticky for this type of chatter...

I agree with bacon, the original thread is as good as any and judging from how that thread fizzled out after 63 posts, I think the precedence may already be set.

TitanMech · 2012-05-19 18:47:03

judging from how that thread fizzled out after 63 posts, I think the precedence may already be set.

Have you considered it mite have been because the community was much smaller back then?
Maybe it if some of the new users were encouraged to post here and if a few older members posted here to this thread mite survive longer this time.

praest76 · 2012-05-19 22:21:22

As a new user I've already been put off.

VastOne · 2012-05-19 22:28:10

^ Sorry to hear that. If you let us know why, perhaps there could be a remedy..

Awebb · 2012-05-20 05:04:13

My first computing moment was when we tried to build a off-site house by stapling long rocks. When the sun hit the framing, we recognized that it can be used to calculate pi. This place is still honored by the people living on that island today.

VastOne · 2012-05-20 05:05:29

^ lol lol

Another Awebb Gem... Thanks!

apm · 2012-05-20 05:10:06

Awebb wrote:

My first computing moment was when we tried to build a off-site house by stapling long rocks. When the sun hit the framing, we recognized that it can be used to calculate pi. This place is still honored by the people living on that island today.

are you refering to stone henges

Iranon · 2012-05-20 10:19:26

Getting my brother's Commodore 64 when I was 6 (he had hoped to use it for uni, but that turned out to cause more work than it saved).

I experimented a bit with BASIC programming but didn't get very far (by the time I found someone to share stuff with, I had developed so many bad practices and ideosyncrasies that learning how to do them properly would have bene a chore).
Loved the games though.

machinebacon · 2012-05-20 11:12:23

Iranon wrote:

Commodore 64 ...Loved the games though.

For you: http://www.c64s.com/

tedbell · 2012-05-20 12:16:04

1988 using an Atari XE when I was a kid. Playing asteroids!
Used a bunch of Apple's in school but my first home comp was a big ass 286, then after that an IBM PS/2 (complete with matching dot matrix printer that you can hear for miles). Also has a Toshiba T3200 'laptop' with monochrome 'plasma' (orange) screen. lol A whopping 64k of ram and 10mb HDD! two displayable fonts toggled by a dip switch at the back. Couldn't even use HD floppies with that one.

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praest76 · 2012-05-20 12:49:07

apm wrote:

Awebb wrote:
My first computing moment was when we tried to build a off-site house by stapling long rocks. When the sun hit the framing, we recognized that it can be used to calculate pi. This place is still honored by the people living on that island today.
are you refering to stone henges

I think the modern equivalent of stones stapled together; skyscrapers. Probably talking about Manhattan. They can tell Pi by the shadows the structures cast. Then they eat bagels.

apm · 2012-05-24 05:54:57

no body cares anymore , eh
come on post or close the thread but do something.

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