History of computers
Ok today I am going to talk a little bit about Charles Babbage and Difference engine and ENIAC and ... hey dont freak out I am just kidding while browsing at http://slashdot.org I found this article about "My first computer", so I thought I would put some entries on the earlier computers that I had starting from my very first.
My first computer was an XT machine it had 2 very noisy 5.25 inch floppy drives those big ugly things and they only accepted Single sided single drive. At that time double sided double drives were also available but well I didnt know much about computers back then whew. It had 512K of RAM nowadays 512MB is not even enough. I used to run DOS 4.0 and back in those days I was taking some computer classes too at this institute I was very impressed with edit - an editing tool for the DOS but that was only available on DOS 6.22 so I copied the whole OS on four floppies and transferred it on my XT machine I was able to run it but it was slow but acceptable. I used to write GW-BASIC program on that machine, I played dangerous dave, prince of persia and loads of other games that my cousin had (he had an XT too) so yeah some memories but things change and fast too within a year I got bored and started complaining about this computer to my parents and I was successful in convincing them to buy me a new computer. This time its was a 486 DX machine with 8MB RAM (wow what a transition from 512KB) and a huge huge hard disk 1.2GB :) people and friends used to tell me ahmed this is a huge hard disk you can store so much on this this will go on for years and I was like wow really. About a year later I upgraded my system and I had this extremly heavy LG Color monitor BW monitors dont have a huge body color monitors are gigantic. So now my life was full of colors from them. I also got my dad to buy me a Creative multimedia kit which had an 8x cd rom drive a 16-bit sound card a set of creative speakers and loads of cds too and now I had could hear my PC and play some cool games. This 486 allowed me to experience the OS of the time, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 which I installed after I got my multimedia kit
Later I bought a Pentium II with 32MB RAM (I used this computer for all my undergrad work) until it gave up on me and thats when I got a Pentium 4 with 128 MB RAM I kept my old drive and some of the other accessories from the old one until one day the creative cd rom died and I bought a Maze 52X cd drive. Within a year my motherboard died and I had to claim my warranty and thanks to a friend of mine(thanks ASIF) he helped me out to claim the warranty as in pakistan you buy something with a warranty and when you claim a warranty the sellers not always nice so I had ask for reinforcements and finally I had it fixed. I used it for sometime and then "Chicago calling", so I decided to give it to my bestest friend which he surprisingly refused like come on who wouldnt take a computer free it wasnt that bad and if you reading this friend I wished you had taken it he was in need of a computer and he was only willing to accept it I if sold it to him and since he needed so much at that at that time I had no choice but to sell it to him like we struck the deal on the day I left how fast is that ah memories.
and now in chicago I bought this dell laptop - inspiron 6000 with 512MB and 80 GB drive and CDR + DVD combo pretty much satisfied with it but I'll tell you a secret looking into the crystal ball I have my eyes on an IBM thinkpad ......
My first computer was an XT machine it had 2 very noisy 5.25 inch floppy drives those big ugly things and they only accepted Single sided single drive. At that time double sided double drives were also available but well I didnt know much about computers back then whew. It had 512K of RAM nowadays 512MB is not even enough. I used to run DOS 4.0 and back in those days I was taking some computer classes too at this institute I was very impressed with edit - an editing tool for the DOS but that was only available on DOS 6.22 so I copied the whole OS on four floppies and transferred it on my XT machine I was able to run it but it was slow but acceptable. I used to write GW-BASIC program on that machine, I played dangerous dave, prince of persia and loads of other games that my cousin had (he had an XT too) so yeah some memories but things change and fast too within a year I got bored and started complaining about this computer to my parents and I was successful in convincing them to buy me a new computer. This time its was a 486 DX machine with 8MB RAM (wow what a transition from 512KB) and a huge huge hard disk 1.2GB :) people and friends used to tell me ahmed this is a huge hard disk you can store so much on this this will go on for years and I was like wow really. About a year later I upgraded my system and I had this extremly heavy LG Color monitor BW monitors dont have a huge body color monitors are gigantic. So now my life was full of colors from them. I also got my dad to buy me a Creative multimedia kit which had an 8x cd rom drive a 16-bit sound card a set of creative speakers and loads of cds too and now I had could hear my PC and play some cool games. This 486 allowed me to experience the OS of the time, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 which I installed after I got my multimedia kit
Later I bought a Pentium II with 32MB RAM (I used this computer for all my undergrad work) until it gave up on me and thats when I got a Pentium 4 with 128 MB RAM I kept my old drive and some of the other accessories from the old one until one day the creative cd rom died and I bought a Maze 52X cd drive. Within a year my motherboard died and I had to claim my warranty and thanks to a friend of mine(thanks ASIF) he helped me out to claim the warranty as in pakistan you buy something with a warranty and when you claim a warranty the sellers not always nice so I had ask for reinforcements and finally I had it fixed. I used it for sometime and then "Chicago calling", so I decided to give it to my bestest friend which he surprisingly refused like come on who wouldnt take a computer free it wasnt that bad and if you reading this friend I wished you had taken it he was in need of a computer and he was only willing to accept it I if sold it to him and since he needed so much at that at that time I had no choice but to sell it to him like we struck the deal on the day I left how fast is that ah memories.
and now in chicago I bought this dell laptop - inspiron 6000 with 512MB and 80 GB drive and CDR + DVD combo pretty much satisfied with it but I'll tell you a secret looking into the crystal ball I have my eyes on an IBM thinkpad ......
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