Your first experience with a computer..plz share

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1994 - School had a "home" computer. All i used to do was enter into the Graphics mode by pressing a combination of keys(which one of the computer guys taught me). The cursor would then turn into a block when it was in graphics mode and then, using the different keys in numpad, we could create all sorta shapes. There was a computer course which i didn't join, but strangely we were allowed to access these "home" computers during games period. I used to type in "ASA" "A"- was a girl in our class and "S" was my very close friend who was in luv with "A" but never had the guts to tell her . So to tease him, i used to make "ASA" out of those graphic blocks using supposedly a "graphic mode cursor" and used to make "ASA" flash continuously:bleh: . He used to get damn irritated because of that and once it so happened that Ms "A" entered the class and all four screens were flashing "ASA" and she ended up asking him what ASA means. He turned beet red first before running after me with the table tennis bat.

@Medpal - Very rarely i find a doctor interested in computers. But here, we have you and Wraith. Nice to see the Scientists of the "living" interested in the science of "non living"
 
when i was in 4th standard was exposed to computers

was the Computer dude of the class

felt really good

and so on my interest went on developing ;)
 
My first computer was a 386, I had bought an electronic organizer to handle my sales account,but it wasn't enough. A friend of mine took me to a computer trade show and I bought a 386 (couldn't afford a 486) and 8 MB of ram was around $160.00 :P
 
My first REAL computer was in 1983 - a PC with a 8088 4.77 Mhz CPU. It had 704kb ram and one 360kb 5.25" floppy drive. One 360kb floopy which was bootable had the DOS OS and Wordstar v1.xx and my letters !! This worked with a 14" Taxan Green Phosphour Monitor which displayed 4 (or was it 8 ?) shades of Green. :ohyeah: Got my first HDD a Seagate 20 MB in 1985 for 10k.

Before this PC for about half a year I had a Sinclair which I used as a gaming machine with a jostick.
 
first brush, was with a pentium 133 at school, learnt to run basic on it, heck, within a week i had written my first program, a practical joke
Code: 
10 INPUT N$
20 GOTO 10
was a riot, have no idea how much fun i had with it :rofl:
my first brush with a GUI was on a win 98 machine , celeron 433 methinks , our school net room. net those days was @120 Rs an hour, but since i was assigned prefect duty at the net room, i got to browse for free :D

well, my first home PC , an athlon XP 2600+, which I'm typing this out on :hap2:
 
well, many of you were fortunate enough to come across and even use a pc when you were quite young...but, for me it was only when i entered college(after 12th std) in 1998 that i got to see a comp and boy, the first thing i was taught was to use DOS and invoke turbo C and start programming form the first day itself. God, i used to hate it so much back then.

We had one computer center where ppl. used to go whenever they had free time and engage in chatting/mailing on b&w dumb terminals connecting to unix servers housed in various depts. Soon we had color monitors there but they were still dumb terminals only. But the change to color monitors brought with them the luxury of using netscape/IE(did anyone run IE on unix? yes, IE was there for unix as well back then,it was the best experience one cud hv had at that time) to browse the www.

But,after a year or so, i really started fancying to own a comp with(DVD ROM drive)soon. And there it was in aug 2000, i bought my first pc ( p3 500mhz, 64mb ram, 17gb hdd, onboard gfx,15" color monitor,cdrom). I used endure the painful process of transferring mp3s dnlded from dept lab using floppies. Everything soon changed, once we had net access in our hostel rooms in 2001. Then followed AOE, NFS,p2p dnlds.The rest is history as one can imagine.
 
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