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Usage of Computers
How long have you been using a computer? What OS did you start with, and/or computer?
I've started using computer's back in the 70's, and believe it or not, with a Commodore 64... gradually stepping up to a 286, then with a few more in between,  . I use to play pong, . Oh..and I can't forget about Atari, which I went through a few of them! Then there was prodigy, I thought it was hog heaven, . Boy, technology has come a long way. 
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| April 30, 2008, 20:21 |
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Re: Usage of Computers
I've used computers for a long long time, started out on jobs using them for inventories, documents, etc....didn't go online till 98.
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| April 30, 2008, 22:34 |
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back in 2nd grade. i dont know what it was just remeber it was a monitor, pc, and keyboard all in one plastic box and we could write little programs to make the turtle draw shapes.
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| April 30, 2008, 23:02 |
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Back in about 1983 - an Atari 800 (in my day, we had cassette tape drives - they would take hours to load, if they loaded at all, and we liked it! Not.). I also had a TI 99/4A at one point. Then onto DOS on an IBM clone.
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| April 30, 2008, 23:47 |
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Re: Re: Usage of Computers
QUOTE (Cruxshadow74 @ April 30, 2008, 23:47)Back in about 1983 - an Atari 800 (in my day, we had cassette tape drives - they would take hours to load, if they loaded at all, and we liked it! Not.). I also had a TI 99/4A at one point. Then onto DOS on an IBM clone.
Wow! DOS, seems like a lifetime ago huh?
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| April 30, 2008, 23:49 |
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in 7th grade, we used apple IIc and commodore 64.
but my first pc was actually my ex wifes, it was a packard bell, with windows 95. then MY first one, i got for free from my sister, was a compaq, with win98.
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| May 1, 2008, 00:18 |
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Re: Usage of Computers
Blimey..... nostalgia trip.
I started out with a Spectrum ZX81... no OS whatsoever. Used to buy magazines where you literally programmed in a game line by line. Four hours later if you got so much as a colon wrong it didn't work.
Went on to have the old Intellivision console... ahhhh, Commodore 64.....
And now, I live on my Applemac. G5 beasty at my office, Titanium G4 laptop to wander round with.
(They might be advanced but they dont stop me from making terrible typos.... just ask Liberalwife) 
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Liberalwife
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north, England, UK
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Re: Re: Usage of Computers
QUOTE (Innocentivory @ May 1, 2008, 03:12)Blimey..... nostalgia trip.
I started out with a Spectrum ZX81... no OS whatsoever. Used to buy magazines where you literally programmed in a game line by line. Four hours later if you got so much as a colon wrong it didn't work.
Went on to have the old Intellivision console... ahhhh, Commodore 64.....
And now, I live on my Applemac. G5 beasty at my office, Titanium G4 laptop to wander round with.
(They might be advanced but they dont stop me from making terrible typos.... just ask Liberalwife)
MAO!! Or should that be LMAO?
My keyboard is that used and worn, the first letters are
OVFPIV 
Nowhere near as QWERTY as it used to be!
(Well thats my excuse for typos anyway, and I'm sticking to it!!)
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| May 1, 2008, 03:41 |
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Re: Usage of Computers
I remember punch cards!
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| May 1, 2008, 06:55 |
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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I kinda remember the punch cards, but used the punch tape a lot. You had to first type everything in the onto the punch tape, then turn around and load the tape into the reader. Then you just hoped that some day you would get a response. Screen/monitor was not even heard of. Had to use this huge key board called a teletype machine. It was so slow.
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