How long have you been using computers?

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Athlon64 3000+ S754 water cooled
512 megs of generic RAM (Bottleneck, soon to be PC4000 corsair/PNY/other brand name, a gig of it.)
eVGA 6800GT 256 agp8X stock cooled
gigabyte K8NSNXP mobo, dual IDE controlers dual SATA
120 gig 5400 RPM 2 MB cache WD HDD (bottleneck, soon to be 2 200 gigs in 60 gig partitions, then 4 200 gig in a RAID0+1 array as well as two WD raptor 74.4s, normal operation)
80 gig 5400 RPM 2 MB cache Maxtor HDD (Backup drive)
DVD-ROM
52x16x58 CD-RW
Antec trupower 550W PSU

It's my baby. Heh heh. An A64 3700 is on the way when it needs to be upgraded, but it is a lot of fun to play on. ^^ I built it myself, as with all my computers. My server system is;
P3 500
3x128 meg sticks of RAM with 1 shorting out every other reboot to 64 megs
10 gig HDD (repaired it myself, had became unbalanced.)
XxXx48 CD-RW
Battery backed.

It serves files and loads up chatbots for channel moderation. Max uptime ever is 129 days, 14 hours, 38 minutes, 29 seconds.

Started playing with a Apple IIc in 91/92 (for games only)

got a windows 3.11 in 94/95 (family comp.) This came as a 486, then the cpu battery died and our neighbor kindly installed a pentuim. Big difference. When we got the next machine, I took it in my bedroom, reformatted the HD and installed DOS cause I like it better that way. I use it to play WC Privateer and other stone-age games I can't throw away.

Family got a c*ap windows 2000 nt from some friends loaded with spyware sh*t. this was 2001. They use it to check email, while my brother and I use it to download porn.

three months ago I brought my first PC, a real hottie I use for photoshop, 3d rendering, and ::drum roll:: Civ II.

3.2 gig PIV w/800mghz side busses
6600 pci express video with 256 meg
2 gig of ddr2 533 ram
80 gig HD
CD burner
dvd player
and the best part: fast enough to boot windows xp in less than 10 seconds .

This one stays away from the internet b/c I hate the idea of doing regristry work on the OS or my brother downloading porn on it

hey, new member here.

personally, ive been using computers since 6. ill go into a history later. i used a combo of pc's then, my old 486 and my nostaligist apple IIc.

These days, i use my Athlon 64 3000+, specs later.

...we didn't need to know about your porn habits.

My parents got me a Timex Sinclair when I was 6 because I told them I wanted one?! That was 1980. After that I got into the C64 and the demo scene and I've been a geek ever since

Not counting a few punch card jobs back as far as 1970,
-- I got a commodore 64-SX in 1984 and programmed extensively in their built in BASIC
-- -- an AT-Clone by early 86,
-- -- -- became a DOS power user until
-- -- -- -- I got dumbed down by windows circa 1992.
-- -- -- -- -- I have been trying to transition to Linux for the last 2 years. (I hate loathe and detest everything Microsoft and I don't trust them either).

I have used a computer since I was 3 or 4 years old back in 1994, but have only used Windows and Mac so far, up until a year ago when my family bought a computer running Linux on it to act as a server for the house.

HAHAHA, the Timex Sinclair! I remember when the girlfriend I lived with (and her two kids) got one for her son!
... oooh so spooky... the little black box!

Hmmm, I first used a computer when my dad would take me to his work place on Ft. Bliss, Tx.
He taught me how to use this machine that punched little rectangles in cards. Then he taught me how to load these into another machine that whipped them from one end to the other. Then I got to look at a t.v. screen that had the words... "Welcome to Redstone Arsenal" on it.

He worked in this big building with no windows, lots of big noisy machines, and they kept it kinda cool in there too as I recall.

It took me years to realize where I had been and what I had been doing... in respect to the world of computers and the internet!

When I was in high school, I took one algebra class.. got a B+, hated the teacher, and never took another math class again.
Well, officially I did take math classes... they were called "computer math I" and "computer math II".
We played around with Fortran on Olivetti and Monroe computers.
Thought we were SO SMART printing out huge pages of text pictures of Mona Lisa and Snoopy.

The real computer geeks of the day went to VoTech and worked with REAL computers learning REAL computer programming!
I was too dumb to do it... could have make a fortune Y2K because I would have known all the old languages and could have averted disaster when the comput..... oops... ah, just disregard what I was saying... remember! "Nothing happened on Y2K!"

The Timex Sinclair came into my life next, then Apple computers, then some young upstarts created a 'new' computer company called GATEWAY, and I sunk $3,000.00 on a computer without a soundcard, speakers, printer, etc.
Three months later, I could pay half that and get one of those fancy-pants PENTIUM computers with a printer, speakers, soundcard, etc.

Had lots of fun with DOS on that one though.

Moved on to the iMAC, finally landing with the MacBook I have today... besides a Dell Latitude which will eventually be my Linux machine.

With all this history... you might think me a computer GEEK... in the finest of definitions! Sorry.. I'm still a bit of a computer clutz.

eta: YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT PORTABILITY OF INFORMATION?

I worked for an outfit called INFOSEARCH in Austin, Texas. It was my day job (I worked construction at night).
I got to wear my leather jacket, keep my hair long & greasy, and ride my Harley around while researching legal stuff for customers.

At our office, I would punch cards, then take these stacks to the state capitol. There, I would turn in the cards and get back these BIG spools of computer tape... THUMB DRIVES! HAH! It takes a REAL MAN to carry around computer spools and look cool doing it!

leather jacket and a harley? i pictured you more of a skateboard kinda guy...

umm...i've only been using computers actively for about a year...we have 4 desktop pc's, 3 laptops, and a brand new imac. and they all run on a wireless network. i know how to find the 'ON' button on most of them....lol

hubby is the brains behind the computers. i just know how to use them....

Different time, different attitude, different drugs (just kidding about the drugs )

When I started using computers in high school... I had long hair (at least longer than the buzz cuts I got when younger) and BELL BOTTOM LEVI's... Far Out Man!

Don't EVEN ask about the Disco Days! That was the period of the Timex Sinclair.


OOOh... history by computer relationship!

Since 1995

My first programs were around about 1965, on an IBM 1628 (drum memory), which I can't find a link for, and on an IBM 1130.

and what's wrong with disco? (was i born then?) now you know i will just HAVE to ask that *goes to send off pm*

:O ive been using Computers for ages, I think i used one for the first time when i was 5 years old.

HA! I was 5 years old then... I was having a hard enough time using the computer tucked away in my cranium, then.

There's a photo of me somewhere on my dad's knee at age 2 at a PRIME terminal. He worked for PRIME.
He bought a 486 with MS DOS 6 and Windows 3.11 in 1993. I loved playing Carmen Sandiego on it... He shortly after bought a laptop (in 1994 I think), 486 DX2-66. It's smaller than some laptops today... but the screen was only black and white and very small.

My current box I built myself, it's 6 years old now though. AMD athlon XP with 512 megs of RAM. I'm running Kubuntu GNU/linux on it cos it kept getting slow with windows. I'm holding out with this box until the end of 2008 when I'll get a nice shiny new lappy for when I leave school. Hopefully a Dell XPS M1330 unless they come out with something even prettier of the same size by then.