I worked on a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Mainframe when I was a junior in high school in 1982. We had dumb terminals in our computer room class that hooked into the mainframe down the street a ways. We liked to play the Star Trek text game on them, and would often fight over playing time.
I honestly don't remember. It was sometime around 1993, I had no idea what to do with DOS and it didn't have anything else to play around with and to look at with its green/black monochrome screen. It looked something like this.
The first PC I actually owned and was able to do stuff with was a 486er with 66mhz maybe one or two years later. It was the golden days of fooling around in Qbasic and being excited over getting a CD-ROM drive.
" I honestly don't remember. It was sometime around 1993, I had no idea what to do with DOS and it didn't have anything else to play around with and to look at with its green/black monochrome screen. It looked something like this.
The first PC I actually owned and was able to do stuff with was a 486er with 66mhz maybe one or two years later. It was the golden days of fooling around in Qbasic and being excited over getting a CD-ROM drive.
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My history teacher makes our tests with that kind of computer.
I remember fiddling with an old Apple IIe in my AP Computer Science class in high school(We didn't do much in that class other than play Warcraft III due to issues with the school network, but that's an entirely different story).
It was definitely cool messing with it. I should go see about buying one somewhere and just setting up in my room to mess with. The blazing 1MHz CPU and 64kB RAM are just too tempting to pass up. ^__^
"I got started on my junior high school's Apple II's and Apple IIe's back in the 1982, as well. In high school (mid-80s), I had an Atari 1040 ST. "
We actually had 2 Apple II + computers in the school at the time, but the Mainframe was such an ancient and arcane device. We visited the actual computer (The mainframe that held the processor) on a short walk through town. It was air conditioned in its room (I think it was called a minicomputer as opposed to a microcomputer). I don't know how many times more powerful today's desktop micros are, but you make huge leaps in speed and power in even a year in the computer industry.
I had an old PC with only MS-DOS on it. When I was 6 I learned a lot of the commands by myself - how to look through the file directory, how to boot drives, how to look at system info, all that kind of stuff.
I don't remeber, but the first time I used a computer was in 1995 or so. Computers were starting to behave more like today's, so nothing too shocking to tell. I think it was one with only DOS in it and I was in school, and they were teaching us DOS and stuff... yeah, guess what I did during that class? I played some weird cave men game and a 2d shooter.
My memory is way too fuzzy to remember model numbers and crap. The oldest computers for me back in the 1st and 2nd grades were some ancient Apple computers with learning games that looked more primitive than old Atari games. My brother also had a Commodore 64.
A 386 with dos. It was my friends that they had just gotten for free and they wanted me to fix it since it didn't have a gui so that meant it must have been broken. When I explained how it worked they wanted me to upgrade it. This was in 2003, I was laughing so fucking hard.
I fiddled around with a C64. My school had a few Apple II as well. My dad (still) has an MX-Sinclair yadda yadda but I don't remember using them at any point.
i don't remember what kind of computer it was but it had DOS and was a IBM computer. i use to play different games on it. the other computer i had was windows 98. it still works and is a couple feet away from me.
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