November monthly poll

[patio]

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..

Cray

Still some of the baddest machines around...if you can afford them.

[Zylstra]

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.

Something tells me he meant MHz

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..

Cray

Still some of the baddest machines around...if you can afford them.

Checking it out now, interesting
(btw: check your PM's...)

[lemhof]

21 on a univac and card punch/reader - programmed in Fortran.

[mafia_boy]

I was the 1st person in my area to have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, cant remember the exact date but it was early 80s for sure, all my mates were well impressed @ the time!! makes me laugh when i think back to those days of the 1st home systems!rotfl, it has come a long way since then, I'm 38 now and have stuck with computers ever since!  its been great watching the technology grow and grow over the years and am very excited  about the future of computer tech!

[Gordon]

First computer?  Texas Instrument TI99-4A, or something like that.  Next was Commodor 64.  Only did gaming, could not grasp Dos too well.

[stuge]

I was 15 when I got PC and after then I started using ti

[Zylstra]

It is now December.

[Computer Hope Admin]

It sure is. Seems like at the end of each month the work seems to pile up and I get overwhelmed. However, I'd like to thank everyone who made comments on this poll and more comments are more than welcome. I thoroughly enjoyed reading each of the comments this month. Found it interesting. 

December poll is posted.

[quaxo]

My first computer was 17 years ago... it was a 286 with 1MB ram, 40MB hard drive and a Trident video card. Man that thing was cool back then. First thing I did when I got home was rip the thing apart to see how it worked. Then when I got the new 386 with 4MB ram and 80MB hard drive, I remember how envious my friends were... 

Man, how things have changed. My HP iPAQ is more powerful than my first computer. 

[bookworm1802]

I was in the Air Force, serving overseas. It was in 1994. Man, things have moved quickly!!

[patio]

Something tells me he meant MHz

On that note where would one get a 5Mhz processor ? ?

[Zylstra]

Something tells me he meant MHz

On that note where would one get a 5Mhz processor ? ?

I dont see why it would be impossible... might be intergraded into a motherboard though.

[michaewlewis]

Something tells me he meant MHz

On that note where would one get a 5Mhz processor ? ?

something tells me he was adding the two cores together on his dual core cpu. 2.5GHz x 2 = 5GHz

[patio]

I just asked a simple question....we may never know.

[Frankie0566]

Oh man I'm old!!!  I'm only 41 years old, but been around computers looong time!

The first computer I used was an Apple IIe when I started college back in Jan, 1985.
it was 64KB of memory, with only dual 5.25 inch floppy drives,, no hard drive.  Running BASIC (Beginner's All Symbolic Instructional Code) The software I first learned to use with it was Apple Works and some Basic Programing language in the Computer Literacy class that landed me as the Computer Lab Assistant through work-study program. It has rained a lot since!
I also remember using a Commodore 64 and a 12inch B&W TV as the monitor back in the days of the Atari 2600s a Machintoch (little cube looking one) and a Radio Shack TRS-80.
The next was an Hewlet-Packard 486 running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. I still have a copy of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups in the original box still ShrinkWrapped.
How you like me now?