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I worked at a Jaguar shop in Memphis as a mechanic in 1987 and while I fixed the cars, my boss fixed computers. I'd get caught up enough with the repairs some day's to play around on one of his computers. I don't know what operating system it was but it was fun!  I bought my first PC in 2000. Windows ME. It was fun too! 
 

I first used an old Apple PC running a kind of Apple DOS. That was like 98-99 when i was 6 or 7 years old.

In 2000 my parents bought a computer preloaded with ME. I only used it once or twice or maybe even never so that doesn't count. My parents got rid of it after a few months because it always crashed. ME was horrible, by far the worst windows ever.

So we then switched to 98SE which was really good and stable. I miss 98, I miss my "95, 98 & Me Only" games that i used to run. 

After a while when XP came out we dual-booted 98SE & XP and then eventually got rid of 98SE completely. A year or two ago i got my own PC & it runs Windows 2000.

Well I'd have to say I prefer ME to, say, Windows 1.x or 2.x

Me too.
But Windows 3.1 may be as good as ME, at least for sure better for the year.

I found Computer Hope yesterday. I have a forum going and high hopes of this turning out to be a successfull, knowledge gathering experience. And maybe acquiring a new group of helpful friends.

Welcome, Hope you enjoy the site!

First was a homebuilt Win95 when I was 5. Then an overhaul of all parts and OS to Win98 and shortly after XP. Then got a laptop with Vista. Now my most recent homebuilt runs Win7 like a dream, a Core i7 will follow....

You built a computer when you were 5?

He didn't say, he built it.
The overwhelming amount of unused gift certificates is messing up your head

Do you have any extra Best Buy certificates?

I thought that I had some apperantly not. 

My first computer was running Windows 3.1.  I basically used it to type up papers for elementary school on works 3.0, and played chips challenge!

While doing my electrical degree in 1977, I studied and programmed in 'ALGOL', 'FORTRAN' and 'C' while at uni. It only stood to reason that when computers were making their way into homes, I picked up very quickly on the 8086 MS-DOS. The progression eventually lead me to BASIC (a God-send at the time) - remember the C64?
So, when Windows 3.0 was released, this was everything I ever wanted - someone else was doing all the hard work. Having said that, old programmers (like me) had trouble letting go of their roots. After all the time and study to make a computer do something, here was an OS that did it all for you... and in living color!
These days, I'm using a computer to make life easier hence, an XP user that doesn't have to concern himself with assemblers, interpreters, debugging...
I do however still keep my hand in with the nuts-and-bolts programming languages which forms the foundation of everything the modern user experiences today.

  c64 - commodere 64 easy portable unit, large floppies w/ drive possible tape machine.  64 k is enough for everyone had a large tv crt monitor was able to play 8 bit looking games ect....

 

i am new at all of this and need to learn from the beginning

Welcome vickyyoung.   

My first computer was a portable Osborne 1. No hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, they were fast. A 5" monocrome screen. The operating system was CP/M. Was introducted in April 1981. I mostly played a word game called ZORK. Loved that computer.  It's now somewhere in the dump.