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Anyone remember life without a computer?

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monk3y

Lifer
It's weird... I'm a youngin so before I had a computer I was playing with LEGOS, cars, and stuff like that. But ever since our household got our first computer when I was in 2nd grade. I've been hooked.
 
I use to build lego models and crash them with my bro 😛

I use to go play at the local park when I was about 6-9 or so. Well to a larger extend I still go out and do sports so that is kind of like the park but just different sports.

I use to play games on my C64 and Spectrum. Type a bunch of commands and hopefully they were correct and then wait 20-30minutes for the dam game to load up from TAPE. Hopefully not 'crashing' and having to wait a further 20-30mins to play it.

Koing
 
I didn't own a computer until I was a junior in high school
so i miss the days before I became addicted to the internet
 
No, not really. I have no memory of learning to read, learning to use a computer, or anything like that. It feels like I've always been doing those things, though presumably there muct have been a time when I didn't.
 
I remember before calculators... Of course I`m old too... 😛

Unless you count an abacus 😀
 
hmm ... we got an apple IIe in 1984 when I was 4. I don't really remember before then.

Now I DO remember before I was allowed to go on BBS's and before I had net access.
 
Nope! Dad's been building computers for a very long time so even in the late 80's we had one 😛

I started using it once we got our Pentium 1 90mhz though!
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Yes, that was the time of my life when I actually went outside to play.
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lol :thumbsup:

our first computer was an old dos-based machine, the kind that had a monochrome monitor - black and orange. I remember my dad showing me his drafting tools on it and drawings pictures for my mom with it. wow, that was back in the day. many years later we bought another dos box, an IBM from my dad's work for $50. I didn't truly understand the filing system concept until we got Windows. I'm very much a visual learner and seeing the folders made me understand dos a lot better. We got an HP 6330 with Windows 98 after we got that old IBM. It was my first real foray into computers...I called up my friend and asked him why Half-Life didn't work; he said I needed to upgrade my video card and I asked him what the heck a video card was, and the rest, as they say, is history 😀
 
i remember playing NES and legos much more. i was a little kid as well and played outside almost daily
 
Sure, I also remember life without microwaves, ATMs, remote controls, using credit cards to pay for most things, cell phones, cordless phones, and cable TV. Why?
 
We got a shiny new Apple IIc when I was 5, so just barely. I still went out and did regular kid stuff too, though.
 
My Mom and Dad always had computers for pretty much as long as I can remember, my Mom was a wiz with all that old green screen DOS sh!t. My Dad never did and still doesn't know how to use a computer though, but I remember when my Mom got a Tandy that my brother and I loaded up Space Quest and started me on my way to using computers for fun, though my NES still got a lot more use.

But I mostly played outside growing up unless it was raining, then I'd be inside playing games and watching TV.
 
Man, did I ever come late to the party!
  • 1979 VisiCalc released
    August 1981 IBM PC released
    August 1981 MSDos 1.0 released
    March 1983 MSDOS 2.0
    August 1984 MSDos 3.0
    Late 1985 MS-Dos 3.21
    August 1987 MS-DOS 3.3
    March 1988 DR-DOS 3.31 released
    June 1988 MS-Dos 4.0 released
    May 1990 Windows 3.0 Released
    June 1990 DR-Dos 5.0 Released
    June 6, 1991 MS-DOS 5.0 Released.
    July 17 1991 Digital Research merges into Novell
    September 1991 DR-DOS 6.0 released
    April 1992 Windows 3.1 released
    March 30, 1993 Dos 6.0 released
    December 1993 Novell Dos 7.0 released
    August 1994 Novell Dos abandoned
    May 31 1995 MS DOS 6.22 and announced no further releases
    August 1995 Windows 95 Released
    May 1998 Windows 98 Released
I used an 8088 at work during the 80's, and it had two 5 1/4" floppies to run on. First PC I got to play with at home, was an 8088 in about 1991, with a 10MB HDD, and it had DOS 3.x on it. First PC I configured, was a 486DX with a 130MB HDD, and Windows 3.1, in 1992.
 
Thinking back, it was like the stone ages back before computers. Everything moved alot slower, and I was actually living a healthy lifestyle of going out to bike, play, etc. Then came my first 486SX with a whopping 4MB of ram. Found out how to use the modem, and life has changed forever.
 
Ah the good old days! I used to go out and play baseball, shoot some basket, fishing. I had several set of legos, transformer, GI Joes. Now I'm doing this.
 
Indeed I do. I remember getting a Mac Classic when I was 6 or so, and getting a Mac Color Classic when I was maybe 9 (had that until I was 14), got a 486 hand-me-down when I was 14 and a Gateway when I was 15. Fun times. Life really changed for good when I got that 486, though, the intarweb really expanded my world.
 
I was born in 1960 and got my first computer about 23 years later, so yes, I do remember what life was like without a computer.
 
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