November monthly poll

[dairyman]

About 1/2 way down the page...much better than Windows Exploder

 

Geez, is Microsoft really that bad?
I suppose it is:



Too bad I have to use Monoposoft Idiot Exploiter.

[hardradio]

Would have been '86 or so I think.. Apple II, Coleco Adam, Com 64....  I think I still have em in the attic at Mom's house.   PC's were crap then.  '89 I think I used my first PC as a college freshman, although I preferred the word processor of the ADAM.

I also actually still have in the box the very first home gaming system released - pong made by atari distributed by sears.  As you fire up your PS 3 and your 360 tonight, say a bit of thanks please

D.

[close9us]

  I kick start with an old model IBM computerr.it has been there before me when i was 8 yrs old. I was the last user. I still hold to some of the parts:  4mb Hard disk and a cover.

[ariadne]

Univac and paper tape; need I say more?

Well, that makes me feel slightly less ancient <grin>

When I first used a computer (so long ago it feels like a previous incarnation) you fed in punched cards and I had to wait a whole week to get my job back (on that paper tape stuff wiv holes punched in it.)

Too bad if you made any coding errors....

Then I got to play with a Linc-PDP8, which only took up one side of a small room...we played lunar landings on it (that was the year of the first manned Moon landing)

Unfortunately I got sidetracked not long after that, but started using computers again in 1998...since when they have been steadily taking over my life...

:D

[patio]

Unfortunately I got sidetracked not long after that, but started using computers again in 1998...since when they have been steadily taking over my life...

Resistance is futile...
Seven of Nine.

[YoKenny]

My first exposure to computers was back in university when I had to write a FORTRAN program to analyze some statistics that where provided by the teacher.

It  had to be documented then the code transfered to 80 column punch cards then submitted through a glass framed window then we had to wait overnight to receive the output in a communal drop box.

It was quite fun at the time.

I graduated and was hired by IBM Canada in May '67 and worked for them for 31 years and had many great experiences meeting many people from around the world and savoring many different foods.

My first exposure to Personal Computers ( PC ) was back when IBM introduced their PC back in '82 because I was in the Canadian Hardware Support center where we had to provide support to the field service personnel to help them fix problems with them if they arose for their customers.

I became involved in the telecommunications area of PC communications as my background in large host based telecommunications helped.

We started out with 300 BAUD http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/html/modem_noakes300.html
modems but were pleasently surprised when 1200BPS modems came out.

[vkpmany]

For the month of November we thought it would be interesting to see at what age you first started using a computer. You're also welcome to mention what you did when you first started using a computer, what type of computer you started on, etc.

All past monthly polls and results can be found on the Computer Hope poll page.

Hai everybody
Though i m aware of the computers and its usage.. i got an opportunity to work only
during my 30th age.. At that time, P 286 machine  with DOS hardly the computer hard disk had a capacity of working with 1 GB..  [I remember even it is lesser than that]. When i started learning computer we were learning through LAN based activity with mostly C, DBase III, at times FOXPRO, Lotus 123, etc.. Many were using COBOL. Some stray people using Pascal..This is Many from Chennai of India.   

[Peccavi]

Windows 3.1 was my first experience at 12.

[Zylstra]

I honestly figured that a majority of people my age would have used a computer around the same time I did...

[JRMPS]

 

haha yo, i remember my first computer was an apple performa, before we used the tandy one's. i was about 10 to 11.

[DKsupern00b]

I started when Windows 2000 was released.

[Alex_Computer]

Under 5... T'was a Macintosh SE which I still have... Even though I have a 5ghz 2.5 GB RAM desktop.

And now I'm 13! The biggest computer geek you'll see walking down the street at 13...

[patio]

Where did you get a 5Ghz CPU ? ?
Do you work for Cray Research ? ?

[Zylstra]

Where did you get a 5Ghz CPU ? ?
Do you work for Cray Research ? ?

The Cray went that fast? I thought it had gotten to about 200MHz before they kind of... stopped creating Cray computers..

[dairyman]

Under 5... T'was a Macintosh SE which I still have... Even though I have a 5ghz 2.5 GB RAM desktop.

5GHz Processor? 
Now that's fast.