Uncle Bose

May of 1998 for me. It was an open-box HP Pavilion (Pentium 233 MHz) from Circuit City for around $750. A sizeable chunk of change for a PFC. It had a 2.1 GB hard drive, which my mom asserted would be more than I'd ever need.

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Booker

That's the first time someone's told me that. I'm really not that old. Since I've already crept the thread, my first "PC" was a 486SX/25 that had 4MB of RAM and a 120MB hard drive. Yeah, it was pretty sweet. Before that I had an Apple IIC. I think I was seven when the folks bought it.

ToiletDuck

I think i just started young with comps. I remember being in 6th grade programing an Apple II with no hd. It only ran on a 5 1/2inch floppy. Then my first computer(also my mothers business computer) was a 25mhz system with 16mb ram. My sister then got a 50mhz system however one night when she was gone I went into her room with a screwdriver and successfully took her processor out and went to my comp and traded them out. She never rememberd why it was so slow. This was 1994 because I remember shortly thereafter I installed windows 95, changed the partition from fat to fat32, along with a few other changes then managed to literally get smoke coming out of it before it caught fire. I should have been an engineer I guess. Most kids got remote control cars and played all day with them. I got remote control cars and either had them into pieces within 12hrs of unwrapping or managed to splice much larger batteries onto them making them kick all the other kid's car's asses. Then I went to gas powered model airplanes I built from wood. Still have one of those.

Puppyz

i remember when I first started using computers in elementary school.. Oregon Trail!! lol anyone remember that game?

ShamH85

Hell yeah Oregon Trail rocked. Shimminey HAAYHA!

ToiletDuck

yup. the hunting was the best part. my oxen always died. probably fumbled

reCALcitrant

[QUOTE=ToiletDuck;107858]I should have been an engineer I guess. /QUOTE]

You spell too well. You are disqualified from engineering school.

Overnitefr8

Back to spelling and grammar. The worst on this forum is not knowing the difference between "then" and "than". It is misused too many times from the same people to be typos.

Skygirl

Well...LOL...you could be as old as I am and have first played on the Commodore. You could also be an old fart like me and have been involved in the first online community ever, started by a bunch of artistic Bay Area hippie types, and based here in Sausalito, called "The Well" and have written your posts in DOS! Many of those old creative hippie farts are retiring quite nicely now. My first PC was also the 486. Funny ironic footnote to that. I went into labor on Super Bowl Sunday 1984 with my first son, the day that Apple debuted their first Mac commercial during the Super Bowl. I got to the hospital at kick-off. Raiders vs. the Redskins. My son was born at the end of the game. I had a good laugh about that once with a certain Apple guy.

favila008

I then saw Overnitefr8 make a fool out of himself. Sadly this happened more than once. He argues that people in this forum lack sufficient spelling skills to be noted worthy of a first place in a spelling bee. Yet I don't know what to tell him, other than to tell him nothing. I guess I shall sit back and watch him critique my writing; he has done it more than once. It is not possible because then this doesn't make sense, and more than one time is too confusing. What is confusing is the fact that putting words together in a logical manner is easy. What results confusing is the erroneous comments made by some forum members. I am proud to be my own editor, and I seriously don't care how everybody else spells. What the hell, I know cryptography; it is not that hard to figure it out. It however does discredit the writer, in the sense that bad spelling equals lack of care, and to some extent intelligence. I know this is done fast, but if the person does know hot to spell then there should be no problem. Like I said, this is satirical and nonsensical. I'm really sorry; I have just wasted both my time and yours. I truly apologize for this iconoclastic attack on spelling.