June monthly poll

[lectrocrew]

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! 
 

[Cityscape]

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.

[Cityscape]

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.

[Cityscape]

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!

[EchoLdrWolf316]

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....

[computeruler]

You built a computer when you were 5?

[Broni]

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

[macdad-]

Do you have any extra Best Buy certificates?

[squall_01]

I thought that I had some apperantly not. 

[iamtonsoffun247]

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!

[webster]

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.

[squall_01]

  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....

 

[vickyyoung]

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

[ImnoGuru]

Welcome vickyyoung.   

[jtpetro]

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.