Comments on: My PC History http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/ Philippines, Technology News & Reviews Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:46:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Migs http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-15268 Migs Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:50:33 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-15268 And I'm planning to post mine as well. But the right time will be when I get my next PC from my employer, in a week or two. And I’m planning to post mine as well. But the right time will be when I get my next PC from my employer, in a week or two.

]]> By: jun http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-15245 jun Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:02:41 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-15245 @ vern so you have one too??? @ vern

so you have one too???

]]> By: vern http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-15178 vern Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:47:10 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-15178 lol. The obligatory "My Computer History" post. Every geek has one at one time or another. lol. The obligatory “My Computer History” post. Every geek has one at one time or another.

]]> By: jun http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14494 jun Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:16:30 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14494 this thread brings back a lot of good memories: my first computer circa 1986 was an apple II+, 56k ram or lower than that. still needed a boot disk to start up, had two separate 5 1/4 drives for storage. green monitor. we had lots of fun playing pacman and space invaders on it. i think we had one or two of those because they broke so easily, something about old age... we progressed to xt, 286, monochrome, and i was fortunate enough to experience owning a 16 mb hard drive for the first time. by the way the ram was only 4 mb so of course i had to upgrade it to 8 mb, you can just imagine how much that cost! at least more than a thousand pesos! soon after i upgrade to 386 then finally to 486 dx4.i used windows 3.11 for the first time. i believe that i had one of the best computers in my school that time! i was thrilled to own such a fine ass machine. running windows 95 and with 32 mb of ram i knew i had to get a bigger hard disk so i got a 5 gb seagate 5400 rpm. it sure cost a lot and i thought to myself how on earth could i ever fill it up with so much stuff. not long after i got my first 4x cdrom and that to me was so cool! by the way i bought a sunstar colored monitor along with the dx4, my first vga monitor!!! a year later i upgraded to 586 with a 20 gb harddrive then later to a k6-2 500 mhz. i also bought an inno riva tnt2 agp 4x with 32 mb ram worth around 2,700 pesos from pc express shaw, one of the first pcxpress stores in the philippines. that k6-2 lasted a long time until i got a sempron 2200 last year. imagine, it lasted for more than 5 years and in the process i added a dvd 4x writer, used windows 98, me and xp sp1 on it. last year i was able to salvage some money to get my current desktop, an intel p4 3.0 ghz with 2 mb l2 cache, with hyperthreading, 1 gb ddr 400, pci express video. though i love my current system i kinda miss the good old days when we had so much fun playing carmen sandiego and typing our reports using wordstar. it sure is good to reminisce. sorry for the long post, i guess i got carried away. @ taorist oh yes, the commodore 64. i do remember that! this thread brings back a lot of good memories:

my first computer circa 1986 was an apple II+, 56k ram or lower than that. still needed a boot disk to start up, had two separate 5 1/4 drives for storage. green monitor. we had lots of fun playing pacman and space invaders on it. i think we had one or two of those because they broke so easily, something about old age…

we progressed to xt, 286, monochrome, and i was fortunate enough to experience owning a 16 mb hard drive for the first time. by the way the ram was only 4 mb so of course i had to upgrade it to 8 mb, you can just imagine how much that cost! at least more than a thousand pesos! soon after i upgrade to 386 then finally to 486 dx4.i used windows 3.11 for the first time. i believe that i had one of the best computers in my school that time! i was thrilled to own such a fine ass machine. running windows 95 and with 32 mb of ram i knew i had to get a bigger hard disk so i got a 5 gb seagate 5400 rpm. it sure cost a lot and i thought to myself how on earth could i ever fill it up with so much stuff. not long after i got my first 4x cdrom and that to me was so cool! by the way i bought a sunstar colored monitor along with the dx4, my first vga monitor!!!

a year later i upgraded to 586 with a 20 gb harddrive then later to a k6-2 500 mhz. i also bought an inno riva tnt2 agp 4x with 32 mb ram worth around 2,700 pesos from pc express shaw, one of the first pcxpress stores in the philippines. that k6-2 lasted a long time until i got a sempron 2200 last year. imagine, it lasted for more than 5 years and in the process i added a dvd 4x writer, used windows 98, me and xp sp1 on it.

last year i was able to salvage some money to get my current desktop, an intel p4 3.0 ghz with 2 mb l2 cache, with hyperthreading, 1 gb ddr 400, pci express video. though i love my current system i kinda miss the good old days when we had so much fun playing carmen sandiego and typing our reports using wordstar. it sure is good to reminisce. sorry for the long post, i guess i got carried away.

@ taorist

oh yes, the commodore 64. i do remember that!

]]> By: yuga http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14443 yuga Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:27:37 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14443 @ Llyod Thanks for the correction. Intel had a cross-over there - P II's and P III's in the 450Mhz. @ Llyod

Thanks for the correction. Intel had a cross-over there - P II’s and P III’s in the 450Mhz.

]]> By: Lloyd http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14439 Lloyd Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:09:20 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14439 I don't think myself as that "Old" but it's already more than a decade since I started using computers. Time really flies when it comes with technology. Yuga, I think you got a typo there..... Intel released their Pentium III line with a with speeds of 450mhz. I believe your using a Pentium II 350mhz processor. =) I don’t think myself as that “Old” but it’s already more than a decade since I started using computers. Time really flies when it comes with technology.

Yuga,
I think you got a typo there….. Intel released their Pentium III line with a with speeds of 450mhz. I believe your using a Pentium II 350mhz processor. =)

]]> By: jobert http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14381 jobert Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:02:20 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14381 8 inch floppy disks Optical Disks the size of a laser disk The 5'14 inchers where you cut the other side so you can use the other ummm... side... The osbourne The timex computer that was displayed in Makati. I forgot the name of that computer... PC-Jr. Remember that? Atari 1200XL Commodore 64 Coleco Adam The Amiga Mac Classic. 8 inch floppy disks
Optical Disks the size of a laser disk
The 5′14 inchers where you cut the other side so you can use the other ummm… side…
The osbourne
The timex computer that was displayed in Makati. I forgot the name of that computer…
PC-Jr. Remember that?
Atari 1200XL
Commodore 64
Coleco Adam
The Amiga
Mac Classic.

]]> By: Major Tom http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14374 Major Tom Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:29:06 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14374 I can't believe myself that just about a decade ago, I was still using wordstar and thought that it been must have been the peak for word processing, far better than the typewriter...who would have thought... I can’t believe myself that just about a decade ago, I was still using wordstar and thought that it been must have been the peak for word processing, far better than the typewriter…who would have thought…

]]> By: vespinoy http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14364 vespinoy Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:38:28 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14364 Haay the TRS-80, i had a chance to play around with that way way back. yup casette tapes they were. my first real computer was an xt or was it an at, this B.W. (before windows) Dos was the way to go. I actually had a better time moving around in Dos than in Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups. I was so intimidated by the mouse the first time I used it, and oh the colored VGA monitor was magic!! hehe. Haay the TRS-80, i had a chance to play around with that way way back. yup casette tapes they were. my first real computer was an xt or was it an at, this B.W. (before windows) Dos was the way to go. I actually had a better time moving around in Dos than in Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups. I was so intimidated by the mouse the first time I used it, and oh the colored VGA monitor was magic!! hehe.

]]> By: taorist http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14336 taorist Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:56:56 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14336 Commodore 64...one of the best gaming platforms then. Commodore 64…one of the best gaming platforms then.

]]> By: rnoldz http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14333 rnoldz Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:59:34 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14333 Yeah, Wordstar was so popular back then. But before Wordstar, we had to learn BASIC programming using a pre-historic PC. Oh yes I remember those green monitors we use to have in our high school computer laboratory. Yeah, Wordstar was so popular back then. But before Wordstar, we had to learn BASIC programming using a pre-historic PC. Oh yes I remember those green monitors we use to have in our high school computer laboratory.

]]> By: yuga http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14331 yuga Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:28:01 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14331 Casette tape? Whoah! The closest pre-PC, pre-Internet I ever used was a Texas Instrument digital chess board where you can hook up into a phone line and play with someone else online (sort of). Casette tape? Whoah! The closest pre-PC, pre-Internet I ever used was a Texas Instrument digital chess board where you can hook up into a phone line and play with someone else online (sort of).

]]> By: noemid http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/my-pc-history/#comment-14330 noemid Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:16:24 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=722#comment-14330 This is going to show how old I am already. I can remember the first desktop we had in 1979 or was it 1980. Well I shared it with my brother. It was a TRS 80 and the media used then was casette tape. I was quite mesmerized by it. Whenever the tape would tear, I'd just splice it with "scotch tape" and it's good to go. I don't remember the RAM. There were no computer schools then so we did our own self study on the BASIC language. No windows just the good old DOS. The first PC I owned personally was in 1986 when I gave birth to my eldest daughter. I know it was 12 K RAM, green monitor. Bill Gates said that 12K is all the memory you will ever need. See how far we've come . And every 2 years , I buy a new desktop or upgrade my current one if it's still working. This is going to show how old I am already. I can remember the first desktop we had in 1979 or was it 1980. Well I shared it with my brother. It was a TRS 80 and the media used then was casette tape. I was quite mesmerized by it. Whenever the tape would tear, I’d just splice it with “scotch tape” and it’s good to go. I don’t remember the RAM. There were no computer schools then so we did our own self study on the BASIC language. No windows just the good old DOS.

The first PC I owned personally was in 1986 when I gave birth to my eldest daughter. I know it was 12 K RAM, green monitor. Bill Gates said that 12K is all the memory you will ever need. See how far we’ve come . And every 2 years , I buy a new desktop or upgrade my current one if it’s still working.

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