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It all started with a Commodore 64 and proceeded up with the advent of the 80888 and up to the modern day Pentium 4. It has been a wild ride and I am looking forward to the next big leap in chip technology.
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"What we have here is failure to communicate"
My first computer was a commodore 64 which is where I figured out how to program in basic (I poked and peeked everything to death). I then moved up to an 8086 and upgraded my skills to gw-basic (damn monochrome!). Then I got my first p200 with mmx mind you...now I'm up to a couple of computers in different places, work as an network specialist and run my own side business as a network specialist.
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Your mother looks like a hampster and your father smells of elderberries!
Degree in Electricial Engineering AS, started playing with MSDOS in college, then stated building systems for other students,then:
Win 3.1
Win95
Win98 & se
Win me
WinNT Server & workstation
OS2 Warp
AS/400 Operator/tech
So it goes since 1994.
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Computer Shop Owner A+ COMPTIA Lifes a Beach
Hey, has anyone of you Veterans ever actually worked on an Altair machine?? I'm curious...
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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind." - Sokrates
My Hardware Info, Hardware Media and Computer History page
Yes it does! When I first started Teching, we called that the RTW test (rap, tap and wiggle).Quote:
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Does smacking the tv repeatedly to get it to work count?
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I am a newbie comapared to some of y'all. Only been working with computer for about 5 years, since I got my first one. But the funny part is, even with my small amount of knowledge and expreience compared to some of you guys, I still know more than 99% of the general population (like how to plug the damn thing in).
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Life isn't one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over.
I started on the ZX81 in 1982 age 8 (poking & peeking 2 get more out of that 1k)and had to compete with the vic-20 then moved on to the Spectrum +2(with tape drive)competing with c64. After that came experience with a mighty phillips 8086. Then my dads work 286 ps/2(space quest, police quest, lsl & finding out about perpetual loops). after crashing that machine a few times I got my own 386, 20 in 1991 and went from there(a lot of machines, experience & games) to 1997. At that point I started charging for my knowledge.
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"IT BURNS...IT BURNS"
I started vocational high school in 1979. We had huge Data General Servers and terminals. PC’s were just starting to hit the retail market. I Didn’t get into PC’s until the early 90’s though.
Olden days working off my dads 386... was great fun learning how to alter batch files to play a kangaroo mario game rip off he had hehe
Hughes Air Craft Grounds System Group
worked in a room 36X48 nothing but reel to reel and main frames and a (one) keyboard
one 5"X5" screen oh and my chair desh two file cabnets, and the 200 miles of printouts each morning.
Next door was the card room Remember inputing data with cards ?
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Sarcasm is just one more service we offer!
Yep, but fortunately, time has healed those wounds....Quote:
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Hey, has anyone of you Veterans ever actually worked on an Altair machine?? I'm curious...
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Ya never know, ya know?
I started in 1994 with a 486/16 and win3.11,
tried nearly everyting since (except ME)and now run a small but successfull PC consulting & repair service from my home. wouldnt trade this line of work for anything.
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CoreLogik - "I Control Your MotherBoard"
Emotion Is Irrelavant
Dale Earnhardt (1951-2001)
May He Rest In Peace
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I started back in 1988 with an Apple IIe, writing BASIC on the ] prompt, using BankStreet Writer and AppleWorks. I would have killed for 256k of ram then, now I have minimum 256MB in my machines.
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OS/400...At least it's not Microsoft.
Dont remember the eighties, but I think I started playing with old 286 and 386.
Anyone still running any of those...
In ninthe grade; worked at an engineering firm repairing lawnmowers and copy machines but I couldn't stay away from the firm's new Wang microcomputer 3600. It had a tape drive and a monitor! Over the course of my summer job, the firm actually started paying me to write accounting programs in BASIC because the engineers were strictly Fortran and cardpunchers. The wang was installed in a climate controlled room and had to cycle off one hour in four. The year was 1976.