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Thread ID: 53655	2005-01-23 10:12:00	ok : why did ya, and did ya regret it???	beetle (243)	PC World Chat

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317298	2005-01-23 10:12:00	now whats she talking about this time????????? Now i put this i here cos its chatty not geeky . . . . . and it could go way OT . . . . better here than in there a . . . . . . . Ok been wondering . . . . :stare: (I know) Why you got your first puter, yes why you got it and do you regret ever getting one, cos look what its done to your life now??? good / bad / otherwise . . . . . How far you came with it . . . . . . did it start you off on the current track you are on? are you pleased? How far you might have gone without one? I realise that if i had never decided to retrain, i would never have got lemon . . . . :eek: oh well thats a releif . . . . . ha what a tortuous 2 years thats been . but yeah if i hadnt of had a puter and had a good friend put me onto PF1 i may never have got here . . . . . . . oh hell thats sad . . . . imagine what you guys woulda missed out on if i hadnt of arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i find it hard to imagine now what i would be doing with all this time if i 1) didnt start retraining, and 2) get a comp in the first place . I am pleased, not pleased i had lemon, but pleased i found you guys, and made some really good friends and probably some enemies??? and some major gooff offs, stuff ups and one or 2 :o moments id rather forget . . . . . i have been about for near on 2 yrs!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoa . . . . . terrirised Metla for at least half of that, and scared a lot of people silly, and made some fall off there chairs, or burn there . . . . um bits . . . . . . . while looking at a seamingly nice screenine . . . . :D made some great memories, made some major computer knowledge points . . . . and managed to kill a few comps programs and other assorted equipment . . . and all in the name of Computer learning . . . . Thanxs people, hope that some of us will get together one day, and if not, that we each help another person in our own special way, and that We wanganui people dont either put metla off or scare him silly too much . . . . . . and i really gotta find him some new slippers . . . . . :p post whatever ya want, no flames or derogitorys please . memorys and laughs appreciated . luvs ya beetle	beetle (243)
317299	2005-01-23 10:27:00	1980, got one because I could. Taught myself programming (real programming using low level assembler code). And I have probably earned more in subsequence than I would had I not ventured into the field. Regrets are that I never then had the opportunity to run a Motel. In which case I would have done even better?	godfather (25)
317300	2005-01-23 12:42:00	that i got an extra 512mb of ram and upgraded from the athlon64 3000+ i got to something a bit more gruntier	Tux (606)
317301	2005-01-23 13:55:00	You would get hung alive if you posted that over at OCNZ forums Beet. :p	E|im (87)
317302	2005-01-23 20:38:00	Why you got your first puter, y The laptop is my first personal (work and home) machine and about 18 months old now. Wouldn't be without it. We've had computers at work for about 7 years now, which makes us very late starters, but we also saved tens of thousands of dollars in delaying the move. FYI we relied on Xerox wordprocessors before that and they were brilliant. My wife has had a personal computer at home since 1994 because she was self-employed for a while and wrote a couple of local history books. But I rarely used it even when we went online in 1997. I'd like a wide-screen and better graphics card but all things come to those who wait. ;)	Winston001 (3612)
317303	2005-01-23 21:15:00	Got first on in 1999 after hours and days without sleep trying to convince parents. Got completely hooked since. Longest I've been without it is probably 9 days, or a week if you take count the one hour I spent at an unknown internet cafe in central Sydney on my own while the others went and had lunch. It was too hard to see computers and not go near it.	~sy~ (95)
317304	2005-01-23 23:00:00	Why did I? Hmmm yup, I could and I did . Started off with Commodore 64, then Amiga, BUT then when the Amiga died, well decided to build a few PC's . Started off with 1 computer, then flatmate got interested in playing online, so built another . No regrets . She can do her thing, I can do mine . Saved myself a LOT of money, getting my own parts, and assembling them, than buying a whole system, already made up, and full of useless software .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
317305	2005-01-23 23:45:00	Got my first computer beg of 97 . AMD K5 PR166 32MB sdram[Win95] . It's name was FRED [F*****g Ridiculous Electronic Device] . Bought with part of voluntary redundancy payout . Can only remember it packing a sad twice . 2nd time it got into a restart cycle a . 1999, couldn't get out of it, ripped off by a techie who reckoned he could fix it but didn't, packed up box and its workings and put in caravan for storage [it's still there], but sold screen, keyboard, printer,scanner etc . Mar'2004 I got a Toshiba notebook [WinXP pro SP1] . Things had progressed so much in 7 years, everything I had learned no longer applied . But I love it . In 1997 had McAfee, lived on the internet, didn't catch any viruses etc, when you did a search you didn't have to sort through a lot of crap like you do now, the internet was just as fast as it is now on dial-up, don't recall being on a forum, and I'm pretty sure it was PCWorld mags that I scoured through to decide which computer I would get . This time round went for something more mobile, and one that had most parts with same brand all through it . Those were the days :)	MMM (5660)
317306	2005-01-24 00:55:00	Got my first computer when I was 2 or 3, played on it all the time - used to use paint (the program) on father's laptop, which I still have (it's a 286). Left the country, didn't have one for a while - but did enjoy using the uncle's typewriter. Got back and persuaded parents to buy a PC for school work (hehehe.), that was mid 1998. Got a P266 from Telecom (God bless them) in 2000, the first PC I could call mine and actually use. It lasted me until mid 2003, when I bought a PC off a friend - Word 2000 just wouldn't run on the old P266 without crashing, and reformatting was fast becoming old. Besides, that was the time I started playing counter-strike, and the 300x400 resolution coupled with the 33.6k modem (that I was generously given from by obert6655 from his old PC before we took a crowbar to it) on top of the massive freezes to load section of the map every two minutes, meant that I could not successfuly achieve l33t super h4><0|2 n00b pwnage status in good time. 6 months after the PC from me mate, I spent my last 9 year's savings and bought my first PC and built it from parts. Took a month to arrive, with really crap sales people and horrendous service on the part of those I bought the parts off. Been adding to it ever since :D Admittedly, I learnt an enourmously large amount about computers during the 5 years I had a sub 300MHz system - Windows 95 was legendary.	Growly (6)
317307	2005-01-24 01:43:00	Why you got your first puter, It was many years ago, probably '96 . A dear friend had just decided it was time for her to move out from my home after over a year resident She had decided to no longer be my lover, and i was a bit sad on it really . . . . . . So any way, i decided to get my self a computer and check out this "internet" thingy i'd heard about . First i got a 486 that didn't even get named, then i got rid of it and spent $3K on a P166 which we named Vanessa at the insistence of another ex flatmate who had a rather large ego! Vanessa (the computer) ran on windoze! My next Machine was Sam, and not named after anyone, nor was Sam named after the fact that Sam ran Samba, and various other server type programs . Sam was my introduction to Linux, Ran SuSE 8 . 0 pro, and soon became my main machine . This left Vanessa the job of running Kazaa and being the bearer of the CD writer . Sam is now reduced to 2 HDDs waiting for a box to install them them into . Vanessa is still packed up in a corner here, waiting for me to get my act together and get some kind of gateway machine set up such as Sam2, plus the associated cabling and stuff that goes with a network . Because i'm very lazy, i now just run a laptop that i have named "flaptop" after someone elses humorous childhood misconception . Having these toys has helped stimulate my tiny wee braincell, and has become eventual for communicating in my business . I generally find that those who organise things by email are those that get work done . Where as those that just leave it till the last minute and expect to just make a couple of phone calls . . . . well um . . . We leave them behind . :rolleyes: It must be said that i have made friends through this medium,as well as rediscovering old ones that otherwise would have been lost forever . :thumbs:	personthingy (1670)
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