i just saw teggys thread abt pagers which i have never even seen in my little life.
so i want all u guys to share ur 1st time experience how u came across computers. did u hear abt em from friends. used em at school. watch em on tv.
i heard abt computers like from every where and all i knew is that its very advanced kind of fast calculator and need to be put in a very cool room.
then when i was in my 4th 5th or may be 6th grade cant remember now. I went to my chachu’s office with him. (He own an accounting firm) He had a computer and some other kool gadgets there. that computer was called 286. i remember i played alot of games on it including prince of percia. all these games used to be on big and thin floppy drives. then there was a big dot matrix printer attached to the computer which was constantly printing accounts related stuff like balance sheets. once a month i used to go there and play games. then he bought another one called 486. then there were 2 computers one for games and one for work. i remember friends of chachu use to come and plaaaaaay games.
then when i was in grade 9 or 10th. 286 was shifted permanently to our house on my little request. then i heard that 486 has been upgraded to a pentium 1.
now i wasent following the computer trend any more.
one day my chachu and younger siblings were talking abt windows and how they are learning abt windows 98 at school and i went windows mean “khirkiyan”. what do computers have to do with "khirkiyaan’.
i was so out dated, so i joined a 3 months computer course after my matriculation at iftikhar academy in sadar lahore cantt. at that time it was called PACMAN computer college and we had a teacher who was fresh bcs at that time. lol
they had abt 10 computer all pentium1s with windows 95 and one Pentium 2 with windows 98 on it which was a big big thing at that time and it was the server. i learned office 95. (word, exel, MSDOS etc)
so after 2 years in 2002 when i finshed my highschool/f.sc i still didnt know much abt computers other than how to use a ms word and exel. so i joined a computer college in gulberg and learned some new and advanced commuter langs like VB6 and oracle8 and java scripting and HTML.
thats when we bought our 1st computer. a pentium 3.
after that i got so sucked up in computers and learned so fast that with in a year i was know as a computer geek in my friends and family and i was going to hafeez centre atleast 2 times a week to help buy computers or parts for friends or going to places of friends and family to fix their computers and till 2005 when i left Pakistan i had a whole computer lab at home including 4 my own computers and stacks of all kind of CDs(soft, movies, songs etc) like if it was a shop.
my younger bro was also a geek and my second in command, after i left he took over the operation and still running till now. lol
Only those who are old enough would know what you talkin about! Lol no, not that we are old, just that now we are in or around our 30's!
Khair, I got my first PC in 10th grade and it was a souped-up 486 with a 40 MB HDD and lol 4 MB RAM and I was the king in my school! With two Floppy Drives. Windows 3.1 and MS Dos!
My first computer was in mid 80's which was a sinclair, really a toy compared to what we have now. In early 90 I bought my first desktop with 40mb hard disk and 1mb ram and I thought wow how will i ever use so much disk space and so much ram.
In the 70's there were no computers and we used to used weird looking machines to add lots and lots of figures.
I still remember that in mid 70's the first calculators came out and would cost around £45 to buy, which for some people was one weeks salary. How times have changed.
dad got an IBM laptop back in the '92 or '93. when you started windows it would start with the dos command, so you had to learn all that funky stuff. it even had that mouse nib. oh i played pacman on it, and dave II and monopoly that was fun. t hen when we moved we got an IBM desktop in 98. PII, 7 GB of hardrive, can’t remember how much memory. had the dialup connection built in. even had a USB port. and don’t forget a CD drive PLUS a floppy drive. it was the best thing ever. for abotu 6 months
My first was back in the mid eighties when i was 7 year old...It was a Commodore 64, hooked on to a regular TV and had audio tape drives. The games were Awesome....I then stayed out of the loop till I finished school and got my hands on a 386 in 95....with a color monitor and kewl 3-D audio card...and my first game on PC was WOLF3-D which I beat it in 1 full night.
When I was in Pakistan (early 90s), I had heard about computers that these were machines that calculated large numbers and they have to kept in cool temperatures or else they won't work.
In 1997 when we were moving to USA, we were staying at some relatives home in Karachi and saw their son playing games on the computer. I was impressed at how he was using the mouse with one hand and keyboard with the other hand and I thought WOW, he's good at it!
Then came to the USA and saw the computers in the library. Took a computer class in high school and learned typing. Teacher had a computer in her classroom and it was one of those old computer that had the monitor and CUP connected in one big piece. You had to go through the dos command to open up windows.
I think we bought our first desktop in 1998. Dad asked his friend to go with us and I remember it was a big deal. He got us a Packard Bell (now HP) and it turned out to be a crappy computer. It had windows 95. It didn't even have a USB port and it had a floppy drive. Lived with it until windows ME came out and bought a Gateway computer (can't remember the specs).
Then since we got the cable internet, I got the wireless connection and also bought a Sony Vaio (that I still have) and I needed that for college classes. Then last year I bought another computer (this one that I am using to type this post). This one is an HP and it's got windows Vista.
Whatever I know about computers, I learned it all by myself by messing with them, playing with them, screwing around with them and causing errors and than having to reformat the drive and losing data :D
my 1st comp was a Commodore 64, a yr or two later i twisted dad’s arm to buy me a new PC, it was a 486/66Mhz with 32Mb RAM and 150mb of hard disc, i only asked for one so i could play Doom on it all day. I still have it to this day, its been boxed up and in our basement for more than a decade.
My first computer was a Commodore 64 which I bought in 1986, ie was one of the pioneers. Has anyone played Microprose Soccer on the C64? Man, I was addicted to that game.
My first PC was a 286 which I bought in 1993 (second hand). Had 40 MB hard drive and 1 (!) MB RAM.
First PC we got was in 98, father bought it so we kids could learn to type on that dos machine, heck what did we know, we played those games on them big disks.. Then in 99 finally got a "KHIRKYAN" version computer equiped with Windows98, Pentium 3 550mghz AND wait for it.... 312mb of RAM!!!! big deal it was back then!
Then finally got rid of that by luck, got a Dell P4 in 05'
Last winter I got myself a Dell XPS laptop ! :D
i am not as old as u re lafanter so i had one at my home even at the time of my birth:cb: but the one i remember using in Pentium I or may be dad upgraded it to PentiumII:konfused: yaad nahi
i know abhi say yeh rola hai. bacha university jaa raha hai, naya laptop/desktop laa kar do. bacha graduate school jaa raha hai, naya computer lo. sighs.
that was fun. t hen when we moved we got an IBM desktop in 98. PII, 7 GB of hardrive, can’t remember how much memory. had the dialup connection built in. even had a USB port. and don’t forget a CD drive PLUS a floppy drive. it was the best thing ever. for abotu 6 months 
I still have it to this day, its been boxed up and in our basement for more than a decade. 
haan
pata hai khumz future ke bachoon ke liye alag beds ke saath unke apnay pc bhi le ke dene parein ge:hmmm:
abhi say yeh rola hai. bacha university jaa raha hai, naya laptop/desktop laa kar do. bacha graduate school jaa raha hai, naya computer lo. sighs.