Author Topic: Hi I'm from the stoneage and new here. (Read 933 times)

Stefaan Support · « **on:** December 15, 2011, 03:38:01 AM »

Hello everyone,
I'm from the time when we had to build our own mother board and jumper settings.

My first machine was a 286 machine with yellow type monitor.
Now that is from the stoneage.
Hope to share some tips on the forum here, so I can update myself hopefully

videomike · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2011, 05:46:54 AM »

Hi and welcome

I would not consider that stone age - my first computer was a 8088 and yes, it already had a hards drive while others had to fiddle with two floppy drives... ;-)
And a lot of my former collegues can tell you things that were really stone age ... a 286, well that was a real dream machine! I mean 16bit processor! who has that? Who needs that ?*grin*

Mike

Meg · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2011, 05:51:47 AM »

Quote from: videomike on December 15, 2011, 05:46:54 AM

Hi and welcome

I would not consider that stone age - my first computer was a 8088 and yes, it already had a hards drive while others had to fiddle with two floppy drives... ;-)
And a lot of my former collegues can tell you things that were really stone age ... a 286, well that was a real dream machine! I mean 16bit processor! who has that? Who needs that ?*grin*

Mike

I used a BBC B in work for a while (2 X 5.25" floppy disks) and then, I think, an Apricot Linx or Lynx. No Windows in those days. My son was given a Sinclair ZX81 for Xmas one year but he never took to it (He was only 9 at the time!). My first "real" computer was 25hz and a 20Mb hard disk. I think it was Windows 3.1

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snm · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2011, 05:56:56 AM »

My story with computers started with IBM1401 which used punched cards to input. A computer required a building to accommodate it.

We also worked on PCs with just two floppy disks and later on with one that had 40MB hard disk that was known as PC AT (for Advanced Technology).

Regards
SNM

Meg · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2011, 05:59:12 AM »

Quote from: snm on December 15, 2011, 05:56:56 AM

My story with computers started with IBM1401 which used punched cards to input. A computer required a building to accommodate.

Regards
SNM

Yes, I've heard about those!

Jonathan Leger · « **Reply #5 on:** December 15, 2011, 08:49:42 AM »

My first computer was a TRS-80 with no drives at all that I got from a garage sale for $5 I borrowed from my dad (I was 8 years old). That was the best financial investment in my future he ever made. I was hooked from day one and have never looked back.

davidash2 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 15, 2011, 12:55:16 PM »

Quote from: snm on December 15, 2011, 05:56:56 AM

My story with computers started with IBM1401 which used punched cards to input. A computer required a building to accommodate.

snm...right there with you! When I went to school for computers, they didn't even offer a degree. I went to a one year tech school, where all my programs were punched on cards (COBOL, RPG, Fortran). Went to work for a hospital running an IBM 3031 mainframe. Like you mentioned, it took up a whole room - with raised floors for the air conditioning. What a change!

HoneyJo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 16, 2011, 08:52:45 AM »

Quote from: Meg on December 15, 2011, 05:59:12 AM

Quote from: snm on December 15, 2011, 05:56:56 AM
My story with computers started with IBM1401 which used punched cards to input. A computer required a building to accommodate. Regards SNM
Yes, I've heard about those!

Shiv, I've seen them but never used them! My first was a Tandy-I, then upgraded to a Tandy-II,
next a TRS-80!

Meg, Youth! You AIN'T (true American slang for are not) old enough!

HJ

andrewwilson · « **Reply #8 on:** December 16, 2011, 09:54:50 AM »

My first computer was a DEC PDP-11 which I used at school when I was about 14 or so - or rather I got on the bus with a few other lucky kids and went to the university where we got to type our programs in using Fortran using a teletype terminal. The next week we would repeat the trip, collect our punch cards and paper output.

Did a good trade in Snoopy pics made from X and O characters.

Remember thinking there had to be a better way than this.

But that ain't stone age.

Maybe the folks working with the LYONS system like my granny (IIRC) were stoneage.

The fun started when I was selling computers like the Spectrum, Newbrain, Lynx, Jupiter Ace, Osborne and other names long gone and a few still around.

Now I am old.

So, welcome to these here modern times!
These whippersnappers have got no idea about what we had to go through back when a computer was a REAL computer!

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CarolinaGirl · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2011, 02:10:26 PM »

HaHa, love this thread!

My first computer was an Epson Apex with dual floppies, bought at Sam's Club. I later installed a 30MB hard-drive and a 24 baud modem.

First laptop was an IBM ThinkPad, believe it had a 10" screen (but it was heavy to carry around).

Now we have tablets and netbooks with 10" screens and mobile phones that do more than our first computers did.

We live in AMAZING times!

Tamara

HoneyJo · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2011, 02:55:24 PM »

Quote from: CarolinaGirl on December 21, 2011, 02:10:26 PM

HaHa, love this thread!

And 'I love your post CarolinaGirl'!

This is a neat thread isn't it?

HJ

rishwoj · « **Reply #11 on:** December 24, 2011, 11:46:17 AM »

He, He the memories hmm.... My first computer was an Atari 800xl, and my second and still fondly remembered to this day(by me anyway) was my dear old commodore 64 with real colour sprites and funky music, those were the days.

Jonathan Leger · « **Reply #12 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:25:10 PM »

Ah the C64. The first PC to have a built-in multi-voice sound card. Hearing 8 midi-instruments playing at the same time was way too cool when I was younger.

krlread · « **Reply #13 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:00:34 PM »

My first exposure to a computer was in 1947-1948 if I remember correctly. If I remember correctly it was a picture of Albert Einstein standing in front of this huge and I mean huge machine, made by IBM. I believe the magazine was called "Life".

Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Ken

HoneyJo · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2011, 08:14:00 AM »

Quote from: krlread on December 28, 2011, 11:00:34 PM

My first exposure to a computer was in 1947-1948 if I remember correctly. If I remember correctly it was a picture of Albert Einstein standing in front of this huge and I mean huge machine, made by IBM. I believe the magazine was called "Life".
Please correct me if I'm wrong on that. Ken

Nope Ken, I pretty sure you are right!

I use to have a collection of Time Magazines, and it was on one of the covers!

HoneyJo

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