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what age group do u fall under??

10-15
7 (15.2%)
16-20
19 (41.3%)
21-25
4 (8.7%)
26-30
2 (4.3%)
31-35
1 (2.2%)
36-40
1 (2.2%)
41-45
0 (0%)
45+
12 (26.1%)

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Re: what age group do u fall under??
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2006, 10:07:46 PM »
Here's some interesting history from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer.  Bring back some memories?
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Re: what age group do u fall under??
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2006, 10:38:35 PM »
Yes, like this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

I think it had 256 Bytes(not megs!) of RAM. Programs and data were stored on a cassette recorder. I learned to program in TI BASIC.
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Re: what age group do u fall under??
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2006, 11:24:19 PM »
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Yes, like this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

I think it had 256 Bytes(not megs!) of RAM. Programs and data were stored on a cassette recorder. I learned to program in TI BASIC.
YEAH! 256KBYTES OF RAM! WOOHOO!
AND LOOK AT THAT! HOW COULD YOU GET SO MUCH? 16KBYTES OF VIDEO MEMORY! WHEW!

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Re: what age group do u fall under??
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2006, 01:29:40 AM »
I got a late start in the game.

I had never sat in front of a computer until August 2000. Thats when my household got our first Gateway computer.

I was so scared of it and that I was going to foul something up, I had my kids turn it on for me.  ::)

I decided about a year or so ago to get serious about trying to learn what makes them tick. And when Google'ing something one day, I came across the Computer Hope website, signed up and stayed on.

I have always known the best way to learn is to surround yourself with knowledgeable people.
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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #19 on: July 16, 2006, 03:04:52 AM »
    10-15 :D

    I started out on some scary acer, running windows 95. I though it was pretty sweet. It had 16MB of RAM!!!(now I've got 1536MB)

    Most old people are cool! Age sometimes comes along with experience.




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    « Reply #20 on: July 16, 2006, 06:21:55 AM »
    15 here.
    My first PC was runing win 98 and at the time that's about all I knew :-[
    All I did was play doom 95 and card games on it. ::)
    About three years ago I got this computer. AT that time I knew very little. So I got a very crapy PC. Now I trying to build my on. I know a LOT more now.
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    « Reply #21 on: July 16, 2006, 11:22:35 AM »
    my first computer was a old Packard bell (dont know the model) it had a 100mhz P1 proccessor, 32 or 64mb of ram, double or quad speed cd rom, and thats all i can remember, i dont know exactly the specs but i know its one or the other, i have gutted three packard bells before, all differant, only thing i know is that it was a packard bell legend
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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #22 on: July 16, 2006, 12:41:26 PM »
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    I'm so old that when i was born the Dead Sea was only sick...
    HAHA!
    Yeah.
    where did you get that one?

    My brother-in law has a million of em...he's 81.
    And does more before noon than most do all day.
    Needless to say he has been a great influence because after all Life is short.

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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #23 on: July 16, 2006, 08:15:09 PM »
    Well, now that were talking PC's...
    I have the following:
    IBM Computer - Unknown speed, very little RAM (our second family computer. I am throwing it away)
    ASUS Computer - 366MHz, 300+RAM
    Packard Bell - 266MHz, Unknown RAM, (probably 64MB RAM)
    Leading Edge Laptop - 16MHz (actually very good for when it was made) and unknown RAM
    Gateway 2000 SOLO Series Laptop - 90MHz, 16-22MB RAM
    Compaq 1215 (my newest laptop!) - 130MHz, and 30'something RAM
    And last, one iMac. (Apple Maggot) with 266MHzzzz processor, and 128RAM. But what the heck? Its not hardly a PC. ITS A STUPID MAC!

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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #24 on: July 16, 2006, 08:21:47 PM »
    That's a lot of toys for a kid your age.
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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #25 on: July 16, 2006, 08:25:21 PM »
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    That's a lot of toys for a kid your age.
    Me?
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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #26 on: July 16, 2006, 08:28:57 PM »
    Well, you're in the 10-15 age range, right?  So, yeah, I think that's quite an accumulation of computers there.
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    Re: what age group do u fall under??
    « Reply #27 on: July 16, 2006, 09:51:10 PM »
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    Well, you're in the 10-15 age range, right?  So, yeah, I think that's quite an accumulation of computers there.
    Well, I don't have anything else.
    I am not a spoiled child, don't worry.
    These are all second hand.
    They are stackable!
    I keep them in my room, (almost like pets)

    I am excluding two computers from my list, as they are family computers.
    And one other computer, since its for parts and it eats hard drives.
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      Re: what age group do u fall under??
      « Reply #28 on: July 17, 2006, 03:40:45 AM »
      Am i the Only Person in his Twenties on this Site , i just Went 23 on Friday

      I think i First Really Get my Hands on a computer in 96, it was a P2 266 MMX with 64 Megs of ram and a Massive 4 Gig HDD

      I used that Till The P4 come out, and then i got My First Very own PC with a P4 1.4 20 Gig HDD 256 Megs Ram Gforce2MX . and i upgraded that PC twice - First to an AMD 64 3200 then Added a new GFX card Geforce5600

      And now Ive Bought a Brad new PC that has far to many Numbers attached
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      Re: what age group do u fall under??
      « Reply #29 on: July 17, 2006, 08:35:07 AM »
      TI-99/4A, eh.  Must have missed that one.  Looks like a cross between a Spectrum 2 and a BBC Model B...

      I was a 1974 baby - a good year for microprocessors... (>see here<)

      Commodore Pet, Vic 22, BBC Models A & B plus Master, Sinclair's ZX80, 81 and Spectrums, various Ataris, Amigas, Acorn Archimedes, etc.  Got to play with all of them during my formative years.

      These have been very interesting decades to grow up in, no?
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