Let me count the ways.
In Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut - actually, it's not actually Kurt Vonnegut himself, it's a character in the book, but you just know it's actually supposed to be him, you know? - starts making this list of all the women he's had sex with in his long, rather amorous life.
I, being younger and somewhat differently eclectic, will attempt to make a list of all the computers I've had.
I can never remember a time where there wasn't a computer in the house. Ever since I was old enough to read, I was encouraged to play around on the computers, and figure out how they work. This is a fact to which I attribute much of my later success - get 'em hooked early, parents.
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i agree, you are a slut aaron, but a very very sad one…hehe
Posted by hannah at September 15, 2002 7:02 PM :: Linkhmm… lesse… started off with a compaq kinda laptop (it looked like a monitor with a keyboard), then went to the 33 mhz 386…. then a 180 mhz compaq POS, then the almighty 500 mhz celeron i’ve been running for 3 years… and in only 2 short weeks, the athlon XP 2000+ comes in. drool, botches.
-akex
Posted by akex at September 15, 2002 7:19 PM :: LinkHeh. I forgot my shitty 200 made out of spare parts. It was nice when 200 was fast, for the two whole minutes (by the time it worked, 400’s were king).
Posted by Ben at September 16, 2002 9:15 PM :: LinkOk, so I’m a little older.
First computer was a Commodore Vic20 — the one they made before the 64. It had a tape drive.
Casette tape.
Really.
You put in a blank audio cassette and save programs to it, and ran them off it. It was SLOW. Like, you’d put in the casette, type LOAD WHATEVER, then go have lunch, then come back in time to play the game.
After that it was the Commodore 64, with 64k of memory! Then an Apple 2c (it was advanced! way better than the Apple 1). Then my first PC, an IBM clone.
It had two speeds: normal and TURBO. Normal was 4.77 Mhz and Turbo was 8 Mhz. Eight megahertz people. Its hard dirve was measured in megabytes, not gigabyes (20 of ‘em).
It had 640k of memory. Ten times the Commodore 64. We bought it with a monochrome screen, and to play CGA games I had a software emulator that fooled the computer into thinking it had a color graphics card. First you ran the software emulator, then you ran whatever game it was you wanted to play.
Eventually, we bought a color monitor and a VGA card (we skipped right past CGA). CGA was 4 colors, EGA was 8, then 16. VGA was 256. My computer now has 16 million colors, or something.
Glory days, they’ll pass you by… ;)
Posted by Jim at September 17, 2002 1:54 PM :: LinkOh, the infamous Turbo button - I forgot about that. The Zeos had one of those, sped it up considerably.
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I’ve been using a computer since I was three. I started out with a pretty simple PCJr which I fondly remember playing Kings Quest 1 on. Then we got the brand spankin new 486 and when we got it a soundblaster, it was the most exciting thing ever. Um, then I got the old 166 sitting upstairs, when 166 megahertz was alot. When Pete moved home I used his computer, 500 mhz, and finally I got this new computer on my birthday this year at 1.6 mhz and I really should overclock it to 1.9, but I have not inclination to.
Posted by Ben at September 15, 2002 11:59 AM :: Link