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emorphien · #31 Post by **emorphien** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:29 am

elmalloc wrote:at 22 why do you need 1.7 ghz pentium M? BAH!

That's a strange question. Why wouldn't you?

I do a lot of media work so I eagerly await my new T43p! (22 here)

YukYukLee · #32 Post by **YukYukLee** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:50 am

hehe i didnt know

but its ok i dont mean it as man as in guy just a sayin and a wierd habbit

hehe

farmer kev · #33 Post by **farmer kev** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:39 am

You all make me feel very old, my first computer experance was at North Fort Hood in late 1984 using some kind of unix terminal to log data from a field trial of new field hospital equipment. The system frequently went down and was connected to the computer "under the mountian", danged in I know where. Got the job because of my typing skills or rather my fellow soldiers lack of them.

Navck · #34 Post by **Navck** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:42 pm

At the age of 1, my father tried to teach me how to type on an Atari Mega ST2....
Somewhere when I was 3-5 I used an Macintosh Quadra 680 (Daily) + Somw 56k internet (Aahhh, its making noises it again! Ruuun!)
Near 5-7, my had a friend make a prebuilt for us. It was pretty good and could run newer games even with a Voodoo 2 and Pentium 2
Near 7-9... DELL'D. It kept overheating, couldn't play Rouge Spear (Pretty new back then?) For more than 45 seconds or overheats and shuts down with the smell of smoking eletronics. Or just browsing the web for 30 minutes. = Also they voided our warranty (By making us open it and replug everything!)
Near 10-13, my dad proceeded to make me a modern generation system, Pentium 4, RDRAM, Ge Force 3 Ti 500, 1GB of RDRAM (Pretty much too)
14, now. I built my own system, my mother a system, and a pround owner of a T43 (Thats lasting me beyond college! 6 years of warranty on it to keep it alive!)

#35 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:01 pm

You had Pentium II's at age 5? Man, when I was 5, I used my dads 286 (and it was new at the time too) at home and an Apple IIe Platinum (man I miss Math Blaster) at school. I know I'm still rather young, I'm only 18 but it is still so hard to believe the 90's and late 80's were already that long ago. Life moves by fast.

#36 Post by **thePCxp** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:18 am

I satarted using computers at the age of 5. I got my first computer when I was 9. I started using ThinkPad's when I was 13 (I used my middle school ThinkPad's and I even helped my middle school set up their ThinkPad's) and that was the first time used a laptop computer, the first ThinkPad that I used was an A21m. And I finally got my first ThinkPad (and laptop) hen I was 14.

#37 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:07 pm

Your middle school let you work on their computers? Man, when I was in middle school, no jokes, if I'm lying I'm dying, I got suspended for changing the desktop wallpaper. The official report said I hacked it. Only a government school Wow.

Navck · #38 Post by **Navck** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:57 pm

My middileschool (Going to be in highschool) uses the evilMac (eMac)
Now they're in the process of swapping to Dells..
PS -> They use such a horrid verification system
Even a keypress -> Not accepted by computer, infact, sent to the school eMac server, verified, then sent back (On 802.11b). Now imagine the overhead.... Aka = Too slow to use

#39 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:16 pm

Just remember who sets up these school computer systems: beuracrats. I'm not sure if this will be the same for you but when I went into highschool a few years ago, I noticed that computer security was a little more lax though things did get a little more tense than before when they switched from Win98 to WinXP.

#40 Post by **thePCxp** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:29 pm

When I was in middle school and worked on their computers, I volunteered. I really wanted to help my school set up their ThinkPad's. There is someone in my middle school who works with the school's computers and I made friends with him and he let me help him setup the ThinkPad's.
I also made friends with someone in my high school who works with the school's computers and he lets me help him with them. (My high school uses IBM's).

Navck · #41 Post by **Navck** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:46 pm

IBM? Lucky...
Elementry = 10 year outdated Macintoshes
Elementry later = DELL
Middileschool = Macintosh
Middileschool later = Macintosh, they're going to have Dells.

#42 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:21 pm

No offense to you folks but can someone OVER 20 PLEASE POST!? I'm feeling old here, and I'm not even 20, this isn't right, I shouldn't be feeling old, I should be making other users feel old!

benplaut · #43 Post by **benplaut** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:56 pm

Navck wrote:IBM? Lucky...
Elementry = 10 year outdated Macintoshes
Elementry later = DELL
Middileschool = Macintosh
Middileschool later = Macintosh, they're going to have Dells.

my first school started with IBM, then got Win XP dells to replace them. then my next school had dells, and a few custom-builts. then, my next one had about half dell, a quarter IBM, and the remaining computers old Win98 OEM brands.

my current school has about 3 iMacs, 3 PowerMac G4 (video editing), 1 dual G5 Mac server, and most of the rest emachines. the lab for the middle school (40 students) is 4 Dell (i think L100?) laptops, and many student laptops. "my" computer class is in the process of adding 4 Ubuntu machines to the laptops, to give us a more substantial lab (the old Win 98's the school had outside sitting under a tent. 500MHz Celerons with 128mb RAM each, and 10gb HDD. Not bad for junkers!).

#44 Post by **thePCxp** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:49 pm

When I was in elementary school, we ahd Apple's then we had IBM's.
In middle school (for my 6th grade year) we had IBM's.
In my middle school were I attended for 7th and 8th grade, we had both Apple's and IBM's but when I was in 7th grade we had more Apple's, but when I was in 8th grade, I guess we had both types because we also had ThinkPad's.
In my high school, we have IBM's.

bhtooefr · #45 Post by **bhtooefr** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:43 am

17 here.

That's the WORST age possible - you want out of home, but you can't leave - you're trapped.

Here goes:

3: First touched the Apple //c. I remember my first attempt at a hardware mod well. The mobo was damaged such that a second floppy drive wouldn't work, and I wanted to run an app (forget which, though) that needed both floppy drives. So, I tried putting both disks(!) in the one drive. They fit, but needless to say, it didn't work. No damage to the disks or drive, though

6: First learned BASIC, first touched an IBM PS/1 (don't know model number, but it had a 386SX, 1MB of RAM, and a 40MB HDD. It LOOKS like the pics of a 2121 that I've seen, though...)
9: First got online, with a 33MHz 386DX with 4MB RAM, a 120MB HDD, and Windows 3.1.
9: First laptop, a used Apple PowerBook 180. 33MHz 68030, 14MB RAM, 120MB HDD.
10: First PC laptop, a Leading Edge N3SX/20. 20MHz 386SX, 1.5MB RAM, 40MB HDD
17: First ThinkPad - see sig

I'm sure I could put more details in, but I don't care right now...

ThinkPad · #46 Post by **ThinkPad** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:46 am

Didnt know this place had such young people...

#47 Post by **JaneL** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:39 am

Thinkpad wrote:Didnt know this place had such young people...

Cheer up - 20% of the people who bothered to vote are over 40. I didn't bother.

#48 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:49 pm

As I told someone here on another forum. I'm from what one might call "The Who" generation. 'Won't get fooled again' and all that.

When I was in HS (of about 2000 students, in 4 grades, in a major metropolitan city), we had one client terminal running BASIC. That terminal connected to a mainframe of some sort in the county building, over an acoustic modem. All the HS's in our area had the same setup. I used to stay after school, to wait my turn, to type in a program and run it. The programs were stored on paper punch tape, and what a pain that punch tape reader was!

I also used to walk five miles to school, in the snow, with shoes that had holes in them. Just kidding (but only about the walking to school part).

EDIT: Just to be clear, I was kidding about the whole sentence above regarding walking to school.

#49 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:29 pm

My shoes have holes in them but I'm told that's for running laces through.

dreamYu · #50 Post by **dreamYu** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:52 am

I'm 23.

btw. hi, i'm new here - found this forum yesterday and thought I have to register to swim with the warm spirit of all this friendly tp-users here

tehsoul · #51 Post by **tehsoul** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:28 pm

I'm 21 and i've seen the light since early 2004 (aka i started using ibm thinkpads then). I went to visit a friend, played around with his ibm r series, and I ordered my first thinkpad (r50p) the week after

i'm an it student (software engineering, actually) and I'm from Antwerp, Belgium (not a lot of eu users here eh?

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JHEM · #52 Post by **JHEM** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:50 pm

tehsoul wrote:I'm from Antwerp, Belgium (not a lot of eu users here eh? )

I hope you won't scare our newest member from Wien away by saying that.

Actually, I believe approx. 20% or so of our 6K+ members are from the EU or UK.

Regards,
James

tehsoul · #53 Post by **tehsoul** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:04 pm

oh

doesnt show in most of the topics here though

@ thePCxp: there should be more girls like you. i constantly argue with my girlfriend about my geekness, she thinks I should spend my free time more usefully (I bet that's a problem lots of users here have)

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