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| Thread ID: 141558 | 2016-01-10 23:17:00 | How has your computing changed over the time? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1414296 | 2016-01-10 23:17:00 | I was just reading a similar post photography related. To me computing over the years as a teenager I was talking it, I bought my PC World magazines etc. Always trying out the latest version of Windows, I remembered putting on Win95 on a 386 SX-25 with 4MB RAM and then I tried to shove on Win98 on a 486 DX4-75 with 16MB RAM and loaded all these other cool utilities like Norton Systems Works which included Crash Guard which also crashed :D These days, I keep things to a minimum so it is very efficient, still using my 2009 PC and hope to use it until it's 10th Anniversary. I added a SSD in the last 12 months. Since 2009 I think I added a 1TB back drive and that was it. To me is just a tool to go online and edit my photographs. To me computing has lost the fizz. I no longer buy magazines, I don't even read them in the library, no longer read tomshardware unless I am after something. I had a laptop while I studied but since that too many items gets too messy, I just stick to my single PC and smartphone. My phone is similar. My last one I accidentally flashed incorrectly had to get a new one in the last 6 months. But the previous one I had for 3yrs and I find very little difference re: speed. It was a LG Optimus G (One). Would have been quite happy to stick with my old one. Your experiences? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1414297 | 2016-01-11 00:16:00 | Well I started with Workbench. That didn't change in years......2 computers in 8 years. Then came DOS, then windows 95, 98, xp and now 7. Skipped the rest. Did used to upgrade the hardware around every 18 mnths to 2 yrs. That's stopped lately. Well, less often. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1414298 | 2016-01-11 00:40:00 | The main thing for me was the transition from command line OSes to GUI's. I started out with a commodore 64 and had to learn commands for everything, (load * ,8,1 seems vaguely like the loading a disk or tape directory). Then I switched to an Atari ST with it's GEM desktop. In those days I had delusions of teaching myself to program as well. Then when I went to a 386 in many ways it was a backwards step to command line OS again and I remember spending a great deal of time editing config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up all the memory I could for gaming. I've continuously upgraded hardware and software ever since, but once windows 95~98 and then XP hit the command line rapidly started to fade into memory. That's actually my biggest gripe with Linux is that you need to use the command line again much more than on a windows machine and these days I just can't be bothered learning that stuff. So from old slow 8 bit computers to modern fast 64 bit GUI based monsters my computing experience has always been changing. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1414299 | 2016-01-11 00:59:00 | I started with the 6502 apple II. There were lots of Spectrum 48, Vic 20 and commodore 64 around at that time. I think Amiga 500 came out a few years later and it was the "ultimate" computer then. A few years I switched to 8088, I had Windows 1.0, it ran on 1 5.25" floppy disk. A 10MB hard drive would have costed a few thousand dollars which of course I couldn't afford one. I skipped the 286, and 386 era, my next PC was the Intel 486 DX then DX4-100. I skipped the 1st Pentium, got the slot Pentium II >> Pentium III ... |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 1414300 | 2016-01-11 02:01:00 | Had a Sega. Amiga, (till the battery leaked, that was that), 486, and these. Only one of them has an SSD. Had android mobiles, those were boring / crap, too slow, not enough space. bla bla bla. So bought a 10.1 android tablet instead. Then brought a stand case cover with built in keyboard for it. It plugs into the USB port on the tablet. Then got a free stylus when I got something else from Ebay. I'll use the Windows Phone instead. At least there's still a bit of space on it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1414301 | 2016-01-11 03:51:00 | an Atari ST with it's GEM desktop brings back memories. my first computer was an atari 520STFM |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1414302 | 2016-01-11 04:10:00 | Started life with a Commodore 64 with a GUI of sorts called "GEOS." Believe it or not, I even used it for business, spreadsheets, word processing, etc with a dot matrix printer. Later an IBM "portable," a bag of bricks with a handle on it running DOS something or other. 1997 graduated to something with W95 and lost that so the next box was a Pentium II with W 98. Later installed W 2000 on that box. Only one box after that with XP SP3 before moving to current flaptop with W7. I have not felt the slightest need to upscale from there. I find the pushing of W 10 by MS slightly offensive. I have a 1 TB external drive and together they have met all my needs for 5 years now and I expect that they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I've never been into gaming and mostly now it is just Photoshop, email and the usual utilitarian surfing for needed information. Now that I've passed the three score years and ten, I tend to fall behind in adapting to new technology and haven't even added a smart phone to my meds-laden pockets! |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 1414303 | 2016-01-11 04:12:00 | My Atari was a 1040STFM and I even bought a 32MB hard drive for it - cost $1k second hand, had to be partitioned into 3 drives because the ST could only address up to 16MB at a time, and I never managed to find anything to fill it with. Spent a fortune on that thing. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1414304 | 2016-01-11 05:32:00 | My chair is slightly nearer the screen | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1414305 | 2016-01-11 05:42:00 | My chair is slightly nearer the screen Mine got further away, so I got glasses. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
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