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A forum topic will appear each time a new poll is run. For more information, see: http://proz.com/topic/33629 | | | R. Alex Jenkins Brazil Local time: 10:41 Member (2006) Portuguese to English + ... Way back...... | Sep 2, 2008 |
The Sinclair ZX81, later followed by the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k and the Commodore 64. Neither of them had hard drives, floppy drives - ANY sort of drive whatsoever. I still have yearnings for the sound of the ZX Spectrum tape loader 'screech'. Those were the days, but thankfully well and truly gone by now | | | Andrea Riffo Chile Local time: 10:41 English to Spanish + ...
Atari 800 XL. The word processor was a blue screen with white letters... I can't remember its name (the OS was BASIC, I think). I do remember Logo and the endless strings of instructions I had to type in order to make the darned turtle draw! And the tape. Oh, the tape. You could start loading a game, have lunch, take a nap, and come back just in time to start playing.
[Edited at 2008-09-02 16... See more Atari 800 XL. The word processor was a blue screen with white letters... I can't remember its name (the OS was BASIC, I think). I do remember Logo and the endless strings of instructions I had to type in order to make the darned turtle draw! And the tape. Oh, the tape. You could start loading a game, have lunch, take a nap, and come back just in time to start playing.
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It was a Commodore 64. If I recall correctly, it used the large 5" floppies. And my friend Gordon programmed it with Spanish characters, so I thought I was incredibly state-of-the-art! I take it back; just remembered I had a TRS-something-or-other before that. (Tandy Radio Shack). I had to buy a special Spanish daisy wheel for the printer. No Internet until 1997. | |
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S_Angel (X) Italy Local time: 14:41 German to Italian + ...
I think it was a 386, and the OS was Windows 3.1. Before that I was still playing with dolls | | | Nothing compares to... | Sep 2, 2008 |
...my first computer: the wonderful, amazing, smashing Amstrad CPC 464 and a cassete recorder/player as its sole storage device. BTW: The "64" in "464" meant the incredible RAM of 64 KB!!!! But we could not afford luxury at that time and I got the monochrome screen, not the colour one. I nevertheless thank my parents for spending a pile of money (of... See more ...my first computer: the wonderful, amazing, smashing Amstrad CPC 464 and a cassete recorder/player as its sole storage device. BTW: The "64" in "464" meant the incredible RAM of 64 KB!!!! But we could not afford luxury at that time and I got the monochrome screen, not the colour one. I nevertheless thank my parents for spending a pile of money (of which they did not have much in the mid-80s) to get me such wonder of technology.
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JaneTranslates wrote: It was a Commodore 64. | | | Patricia Rosas United States Local time: 06:41 Spanish to English + ... In memoriam
On a VAX (?) mainframe running UNIX, something called "Cat" if I remember. A REALLY rudimentary word processing software. Also on a product from DECUS -- I can't remember the name of the software, but I used it to develop ways to do basic office accounting. When they held conferences, the users were called WOMBATS. I still have my WOMBAT T-Shirt! Thanks for the walk down memory lane (now I know how lame my brain is!)... | |
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Parrot Spain Local time: 14:41 Spanish to English + ...
DOS on a 5 1/4" floppy and the working file on another. I think I've seen the range of word processors, starting from WANG and WordStar Oh, yes: in-house there was a mimeographing machine (can this get any worse?) | | | On a school computer... | Sep 2, 2008 |
Were they Acorns or BBC? All I remember is that we played "educational" games.. so I guess that's probably when I first started using one! Then.. later on my parents bought one of the really early Apple Macs...
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Andrea Riffo wrote: And the tape. Oh, the tape. You could start loading a game, have lunch, take a nap, and come back just in time to start playing. [Edited at 2008-09-02 16:46] Yes, I know that feeling. I confess that in those years I used to take the train to Madrid and spend my weekly pay in illegal copies of tapes with games purchased at El Rastro, a big Sunday flea market. I could not wait to get home (it took me 2 hours to return from Madrid all in all, and it is just 65 km away) and load the tape. I always had my small flat screwdriver at hand in case I had to tweak the cassette player's head to make it load properly. Oh my. It sounds ridiculous I know! But it's the plain truth! | | | Blush even more | Sep 2, 2008 |
In 1998, I was a freshman at university and I had an IT class. I had never even touched a computer before and I was confronting it with the kind of panic "Oh my God, I touched this, what's going to happen now????" It was a Windows PC and I used MS Office (at the time I didn't know that there were other OS's, too or that there were different versions of them, too)!!! | |
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You lucky one!!! | Sep 2, 2008 |
S_Angel wrote: I think it was a 386, and the OS was Windows 3.1. Before that I was still playing with dolls So you did not need a screw driver to load your software! You lucky one! | | | Maria Löfving Sweden Local time: 14:41 Member (2008) English to Swedish + ...
It wasn´t until high school that I learned properly how to use a computer. Windows (not sure about the number of that one) and Word 6.0. My brother did however have a Commodore 64 about 10 years earlier where I would assist him with the tapes for playing games. I can´t really understand today how the connection between computer and tape recorder worked, but that was sweet. | | | mediamatrix (X) Local time: 10:41 Spanish to English + ... IBM mainframe word-processor // BBC computer | Sep 2, 2008 |
At the placed I worked in Brussels, in 1979, they decided to do away with magnetic card-readers for IBM golfballs (reserved for a few exec secretaries and off-limits to 'mere translators') and instead they installed an IBM mainframe system running a rudimentary centralized word-processor software for all those who could justify getting a dumb terminal installed in their office. My first computer at home was a BBC computer (Model B), launched in 1981. I guess I got mine sometime in ... See more At the placed I worked in Brussels, in 1979, they decided to do away with magnetic card-readers for IBM golfballs (reserved for a few exec secretaries and off-limits to 'mere translators') and instead they installed an IBM mainframe system running a rudimentary centralized word-processor software for all those who could justify getting a dumb terminal installed in their office. My first computer at home was a BBC computer (Model B), launched in 1981. I guess I got mine sometime in 1982. Until quite recently I was still using it to control my model railway (it has some very useful interface ports, originally intended for use in school science projects). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro MediaMatrix ▲ Collapse | | | Pages in topic: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7] > | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Poll: When did you learn to use a computer? Name the OS and Software. Trados Business Manager Lite | Create customer quotes and invoices from within Trados Studio
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