Your first experiences using computers
Aug 4, 2024 3:40:07 GMT
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Post by dxmax on Aug 4, 2024 3:40:07 GMT
What are your first experiences using a computer? For me it was in the early 1990s. As a child I didn't have any Gameboys or game consoles, so had no experience using them other than at friends houses I went to.
My parents bought an Amstrad 6128+ CPC, Mini Office II disk and several disks with games on them including UN Squadron, Terminator 2, Strider II, LED Storm, Ghouls n' Ghosts, The Simpsons: Bart Vs Space Mutants, Last Duel, Starglider II, Back to the Future Part II, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. They also got the manual that came with the computer so I would spend time coding in basic and doing things like changing the screen colours and making very basic music with the onboard speaker bleep sounds. I also spent way to long trying to get to the end of the race in the included cartridge game, Burnin' Rubber but I always either ran out of time, a car drove under mine, I drove over a smoking car and crashed the game or I'd get the car stuck on a tunnel wall and the game would freeze.
One of the games I played on the Amstrad, I have since forgotten what it was and it is on top of my list to get reidentified. All I remember about the game was there was a map of the world and I think you had to answer geography questions and a hot air balloon would move across the map. I also remember an area of the game that was like a park with trees, bushes, a park bench and lampposts. I think this area was set at night and possibly top down. No idea what it was, but it wasn't a Carmen Sandiego game.
The next computers I had were also Amstrads. Both PCWs. One was given to me by a friend of my grandparents and it had s green phosphor screen and was basically just used some office software as it had a spreadsheet, chart maker and a word processor. I also had a daisywheel printer which I remember was noisy when it printed.
Sometime after that, I was given a different Amstrad PCW with a colour screen. It was from the office at my dads work as they were throwing it out and my dad took it and gave it to me. It had dual floppy disk drives and used 3 inch Amsoft disks which were double sided, had a hard shell and were longer than 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. It was only after that did I get my first experience using Windows when my uncle gave me his Packard Bell with Windows 95 on it. I couldn't find an image of the exact one I had but it was the Packard Bell with the monitor speaker ears built into it so they looked like ears.
I remember my first experience using Windows 95 didn't go well. I found out one day that some DLL files had icons stored in them, so being totally ignorant, I thought it would be good if I could move all the DLL files on the computer to one folder so I could easily access the files with the icons and see what other DLL files had icons in them. I never realised for a long time this was why my PC stopped working correctly a couple of times.
My parents bought an Amstrad 6128+ CPC, Mini Office II disk and several disks with games on them including UN Squadron, Terminator 2, Strider II, LED Storm, Ghouls n' Ghosts, The Simpsons: Bart Vs Space Mutants, Last Duel, Starglider II, Back to the Future Part II, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. They also got the manual that came with the computer so I would spend time coding in basic and doing things like changing the screen colours and making very basic music with the onboard speaker bleep sounds. I also spent way to long trying to get to the end of the race in the included cartridge game, Burnin' Rubber but I always either ran out of time, a car drove under mine, I drove over a smoking car and crashed the game or I'd get the car stuck on a tunnel wall and the game would freeze.
One of the games I played on the Amstrad, I have since forgotten what it was and it is on top of my list to get reidentified. All I remember about the game was there was a map of the world and I think you had to answer geography questions and a hot air balloon would move across the map. I also remember an area of the game that was like a park with trees, bushes, a park bench and lampposts. I think this area was set at night and possibly top down. No idea what it was, but it wasn't a Carmen Sandiego game.
The next computers I had were also Amstrads. Both PCWs. One was given to me by a friend of my grandparents and it had s green phosphor screen and was basically just used some office software as it had a spreadsheet, chart maker and a word processor. I also had a daisywheel printer which I remember was noisy when it printed.
Sometime after that, I was given a different Amstrad PCW with a colour screen. It was from the office at my dads work as they were throwing it out and my dad took it and gave it to me. It had dual floppy disk drives and used 3 inch Amsoft disks which were double sided, had a hard shell and were longer than 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. It was only after that did I get my first experience using Windows when my uncle gave me his Packard Bell with Windows 95 on it. I couldn't find an image of the exact one I had but it was the Packard Bell with the monitor speaker ears built into it so they looked like ears.
I remember my first experience using Windows 95 didn't go well. I found out one day that some DLL files had icons stored in them, so being totally ignorant, I thought it would be good if I could move all the DLL files on the computer to one folder so I could easily access the files with the icons and see what other DLL files had icons in them. I never realised for a long time this was why my PC stopped working correctly a couple of times.
