You look at what someone grew up with, and then what they ended up doing or being interested in later in life. 9 times out of 10 they will be strongly related.
It was a bit annoying because this was around the time that having a Computer at home was expected to be a given. This did have some upsides, though. If I was able to I would simply submit Assignments (I recall in English 11 we had to write an Essay every week and hand it in on Friday). naturally everybody else would write the entire thing in Microsoft Word. Being that I had no computer at the time, I would just write the essay using Pen/Pencil. I grew to greatly prefer this method even though it was a Pain in the ass after Grade 12; we were at that point required to provide typewritten Essays for the same sort of weekly assignments, starting a Month after the start of the Semester. I ended up writing it at home as per usual and taking time during Lunch (which I was able to spend in the best Computer Lab being that I was one of the few students the aforementioned Teacher trusted), and printing it out. "This looks much better, probably easier to read too" I thought, it would work fairly well.
That first week? I got no mark for it and was asked to stay after class. The teacher thought I Plagiarised it because apparently he had gotten the wrong impression of my capabilities within that first Month of class. Fair enough. I explained what we had done in the previous year's class (different teacher, of course); I Mentioned that, thankfully, I had been doing them the same way as last year- I dug out the Original/handwritten copy of the the Essay- which since I had used it as a rough draft over that week, knowing I would write a final copy, was actually full of editing marks, deletions, writing in the margins about the Thesis statement, etc. He sincerely apologised because, obviously you don't plagiarise editing marks on a rough copy you never intend to hand in, and I ended up getting 100% for it.
Anyway, I still find actually writing with Pen or Pencil to be more "engaging" than typing it out. And even though I don't use it as much or in the same capacity I can actually, you know, write, and don't suffer from the typical programmer scrawl that you see from most people who have essentially replaced all their standard writing with typing.
Anyway, I still find actually writing with Pen or Pencil to be more "engaging" than typing it out. And even though I don't use it as much or in the same capacity I can actually, you know, write, and don't suffer from the typical programmer scrawl that you see from most people who have essentially replaced all their standard writing with typing.
I find it to be the opposite case for me, if only because when typing I don't need to throttle my thoughts and can just go at whatever speed things come to mind, whereas with writing I need to hold back unless I want to write like this: //\||/\/\/\|/\//|//\//|\\/\//\||/\//|\//\\//|\//|\/\|||/\|/||/\/\||/\/||.
Though getting to write nowadays is a privilege, it seems. Rather than be sent a form to fill out through the mail, I get it emailed to me as a PDF I can type on. I rather miss it.
Gonna have to see if anyone else has a similar history but for now I'll post a brief version of mine.
I had played around a bit with older Apple's, think they were some of the first gen Mac's can't remember.
First computer my family got was an Amiga, Workbench 3.1 if I remember. I still have the computer though its been a couple years since I turned it on.
Next I got an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95 and a 1.5GB hard drive. Here the salesman said that would last me through college, and I was a sophmore in high school at the time.
After that the story gets less interesting.
Three Compaqs, 1 laptop and 2 desktops running Windows 95, 98, and XP. Can't forget to mention that one got upgraded to Windows ME.
A Sony laptop with XP.
Also, a Macbook, through three versions of OS X ending with Snow Leopard.
And most recently a pair of netbooks, well, not technically certain my newest is actually a netbook. They came with Linux and Windows 7 respectively.
I'm in the process of making the jump to Linux and will use Windows only for the games and such that can't easily run under Wine.
Oh, and feel free to make fun of any choices, or the 1.5 GB comment, I don't mind.
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Jumping on the bandwagon here as I've seen quite a few of these.
I figured I'd score as either Rogue or Ranger as those are my favorite ways to play.
Gonna have to see if anyone else has a similar history but for now I'll post a brief version of mine.
I had played around a bit with older Apple's, think they were some of the first gen Mac's can't remember.
First computer my family got was an Amiga, Workbench 3.1 if I remember. I still have the computer though its been a couple years since I turned it on.
Next I got an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95 and a 1.5GB hard drive. Here the salesman said that would last me through college, and I was a sophmore in high school at the time.
After that the story gets less interesting.
Three Compaqs, 1 laptop and 2 desktops running Windows 95, 98, and XP. Can't forget to mention that one got upgraded to Windows ME.
A Sony laptop with XP.
Also, a Macbook, through three versions of OS X ending with Snow Leopard.
And most recently a pair of netbooks, well, not technically certain my newest is actually a netbook. They came with Linux and Windows 7 respectively.
I'm in the process of making the jump to Linux and will use Windows only for the games and such that can't easily run under Wine.
Oh, and feel free to make fun of any choices, or the 1.5 GB comment, I don't mind.
Talking about old apple computers, my school had like 15 IIGS's last year.
My parents were really slow to upgrade to Windows XP. We had our 95 computer for way to long, like 9 years or something.
Hear ye.
My parents had a Windows XP equiped computer since 2001, and they only replaced it with Win7 earlier this year, only because the comp (understandably) died on them.
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So I just figured out I'm an idiot and just figured out the first computer I used was an old IBM. Does anyone happen to know what OS that would be? (computer was probably made somewhere between 1990 and 1996)
So I just figured out I'm an idiot and just figured out the first computer I used was an old IBM. Does anyone happen to know what OS that would be? (computer was probably made somewhere between 1990 and 1996)
So I just figured out I'm an idiot and just figured out the first computer I used was an old IBM. Does anyone happen to know what OS that would be? (computer was probably made somewhere between 1990 and 1996)
Would either be Windows, IBM DOS/PC DOS, or maybe OS/2 Warp.
Wasn't born then so I wouldn't know.However I'm pretty sure IBM was all for Windows.
I would say that makes me feel old, but it doesn't really...
It is kind of funny to think of people not having experienced those times though. You know, like having real morning, after school, and Saturday morning cartoons, Michael Jordan, MC Hammer, etc.
On topic, I remember thinking that DOS Shell was pretty cool when I used it for the first time.
I like having all the votes. Technically I've experienced them all 'first' at one point or another.
Do you think that DOS with Windows Shell could count?
Before anybody else?
Hey everyone, I'm back!
Interpretation, amigo, can be many different shades.
It was a bit annoying because this was around the time that having a Computer at home was expected to be a given. This did have some upsides, though. If I was able to I would simply submit Assignments (I recall in English 11 we had to write an Essay every week and hand it in on Friday). naturally everybody else would write the entire thing in Microsoft Word. Being that I had no computer at the time, I would just write the essay using Pen/Pencil. I grew to greatly prefer this method even though it was a Pain in the ass after Grade 12; we were at that point required to provide typewritten Essays for the same sort of weekly assignments, starting a Month after the start of the Semester. I ended up writing it at home as per usual and taking time during Lunch (which I was able to spend in the best Computer Lab being that I was one of the few students the aforementioned Teacher trusted), and printing it out. "This looks much better, probably easier to read too" I thought, it would work fairly well.
That first week? I got no mark for it and was asked to stay after class. The teacher thought I Plagiarised it because apparently he had gotten the wrong impression of my capabilities within that first Month of class. Fair enough. I explained what we had done in the previous year's class (different teacher, of course); I Mentioned that, thankfully, I had been doing them the same way as last year- I dug out the Original/handwritten copy of the the Essay- which since I had used it as a rough draft over that week, knowing I would write a final copy, was actually full of editing marks, deletions, writing in the margins about the Thesis statement, etc. He sincerely apologised because, obviously you don't plagiarise editing marks on a rough copy you never intend to hand in, and I ended up getting 100% for it.
Anyway, I still find actually writing with Pen or Pencil to be more "engaging" than typing it out. And even though I don't use it as much or in the same capacity I can actually, you know, write, and don't suffer from the typical programmer scrawl that you see from most people who have essentially replaced all their standard writing with typing.
Well it has been changed.
Hey everyone, I'm back!
Though getting to write nowadays is a privilege, it seems. Rather than be sent a form to fill out through the mail, I get it emailed to me as a PDF I can type on. I rather miss it.
Exactly. I'm 16, so I didn't start using computers (Windows XP) since I was about 6-7.
I had played around a bit with older Apple's, think they were some of the first gen Mac's can't remember.
First computer my family got was an Amiga, Workbench 3.1 if I remember. I still have the computer though its been a couple years since I turned it on.
Next I got an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95 and a 1.5GB hard drive. Here the salesman said that would last me through college, and I was a sophmore in high school at the time.
After that the story gets less interesting.
Three Compaqs, 1 laptop and 2 desktops running Windows 95, 98, and XP. Can't forget to mention that one got upgraded to Windows ME.
A Sony laptop with XP.
Also, a Macbook, through three versions of OS X ending with Snow Leopard.
And most recently a pair of netbooks, well, not technically certain my newest is actually a netbook. They came with Linux and Windows 7 respectively.
I'm in the process of making the jump to Linux and will use Windows only for the games and such that can't easily run under Wine.
Oh, and feel free to make fun of any choices, or the 1.5 GB comment, I don't mind.
Talking about old apple computers, my school had like 15 IIGS's last year.
OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64bit, Debian GNU/Linux 64bit | CPU: Intel i7-3930K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 WS | RAM: Corsair Dominator 64GB Quad Channel DDR3 @ 1600MHz (8×8GB DIMMS) | Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan Black Superclocked @ 1124MHz (×2, SLI) | Power: Corsair AX1200 (1200W, 100.4A @ 12V) | Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D | Cooling: Corsair H110, NOCTUA NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM (×5) | Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SATA III SSD (system drive), Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA III HDD (media, backups), Western Digital My Passport 2TB USB 3.0 External HDD (backups) | Optical: Sony Optiarc Internal 12x Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-03 | Display: Sony Bravia 46" 1920×1080
This computer's BOINC Stats: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/detail/165430523
My parents were really slow to upgrade to Windows XP. We had our 95 computer for way to long, like 9 years or something.
Hear ye.
My parents had a Windows XP equiped computer since 2001, and they only replaced it with Win7 earlier this year, only because the comp (understandably) died on them.
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Wasn't born then so I wouldn't know.
However I'm pretty sure IBM was all for Windows.
Hey everyone, I'm back!
It is kind of funny to think of people not having experienced those times though. You know, like having real morning, after school, and Saturday morning cartoons, Michael Jordan, MC Hammer, etc.
On topic, I remember thinking that DOS Shell was pretty cool when I used it for the first time.
OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64bit, Debian GNU/Linux 64bit | CPU: Intel i7-3930K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 WS | RAM: Corsair Dominator 64GB Quad Channel DDR3 @ 1600MHz (8×8GB DIMMS) | Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan Black Superclocked @ 1124MHz (×2, SLI) | Power: Corsair AX1200 (1200W, 100.4A @ 12V) | Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D | Cooling: Corsair H110, NOCTUA NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM (×5) | Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SATA III SSD (system drive), Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA III HDD (media, backups), Western Digital My Passport 2TB USB 3.0 External HDD (backups) | Optical: Sony Optiarc Internal 12x Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-03 | Display: Sony Bravia 46" 1920×1080
This computer's BOINC Stats: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/detail/165430523
I bet this knowledge is in the depths of an early 90s quiz show, it's so uncommonly known today.
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