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The evolution of my computer chronology: Part 2
Posted By onMarch 17, 2009
A few days ago, I asked wrote a post highlighting the evolution of my computer chronology. I decided to ask the question to my friends on Twitter and Facebook and I received some really awesome feedback. Check out the results. Can you find any patterns here?
From Facebook …
And from Twitter, with the first one from a previous intern here at Intel last summer. Thanks J.
jfalk: @Britopian I had an Apple II GS, working on a Dell Inspiron 600m now.
karenbartleson: @Britopian research: my first computer was a TI 99. Today I use a Dell D620 laptop and a Blackberry.
Jking89: @Britopian 1st PC = Tandy Color Computer 3 (http://bit.ly/nE0XR (expand)). I now use 3 desktops, 2 laptops, & 1 netbook.
BenSpark: @Britopian TI 994A was 1st. Apple IIC next, today Dell inspiron and HP Laptop. Just ordered a Lenovo netbook too.
LesBlatt: @Britopian First computer was Apple 2e. Today use Dell desktop & laptop and iMac computers; wife has an Apple iBook and another Dell laptop.
bryanrhoads: @Britopian First computer = Apple IIe … Castle Wolfenstein was THE BEST!
HeatherinBC: @Britopian Commodore 64/Lenovo R61e (with ‘Intel Celeron Inside’)
francinegeller: @Britopian My first laptop was a PowerBook 180..I brought it to lectures in grad school….now I have an HP Pavilion Elite d5100t
RayHartjen: @Britopian rollin with Vaio, ‘course! When Win7 comes out, I’ll cut some size and weight and roll with the P series
diancrawford: @Britopian first computer was a TRS80 in….1979! Wrote my first basic program on that…had to save to tape.
melaniephung: @Britopian My college computer was a Mac LC 550 (or 575? not sure). Currently have a 24″ iMac at home. Use Compaq at work (w/ Intel Inside)
chuckiem: @Britopian My First computer was a Toshiba Tecra and I now use a Mac Pro…http://profile.to/charlesmartin/
RayHartjen: @Britopian my story starts with a Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80 – cassette driven – at the time (1981), very cool
LorenHeiny: @Britopian 1st PC was a homebrew 8080 I built in 1979. Cost a little more than $500. 1st purchased PC was an IBM clone in mid-80s for $500.
I also wanted to call out Jorge Escobar, Francois, Mouse, Jasmine, Dave, Alessandra, Mario and especially Robert Hallock for your comments on the original post. A big thank you to everyone for your contributions here. I really do appreciate it.
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michael,
thanks for the follow up with this. I got your tweet a few days ago and I guess it didn’t make sense to respond.
The pattern I see is that most everyone now has a Mac! I have one too!
thuy
So I can’t help but wonder if anyone has held on to these old machines. Does anyone have a working machine anymore?
Brito — c’mon man. I responded to your tweet but I don’t see it up in the post!
My first computer was a commodore 64 — and yes, I did also have an Apple IIe and play Dark Castle.
Today I am rollin’ with a Mac Book. Once you go Apple, you can’t back! Trust me.
ha, thuy and phamtastic … sorry. You gotta be quick with these things!! : )
Next time for sure.
I ran the utility to create “recovery discs” on my new laptop. It aborted. I registered and emailed tech support for a set of discs. I waited. I emailed again. I waited. Over 3 months, including two emails to the office of the CEO, Mark Hurd, this produced…NO EFFECTIVE COMPAQ SUPPORT!
My laptop is useless without recovery discs and I can’t get normal support, escalated support, or support from the office of the CEO.
Will I ever recommend or buy Compaq or HP again? Not in THIS lifetime.
I have this computer. My computer looks exactly like this picture.
It’s pretty tight. I got a lot of compliments and…it sets me apart
from everyone’s elses laptop (well most of them, I’m the only one
I’ve seen with this kind of laptop). Yeah, plus
if my computer just happens to be in a row of other laptops…I’ll
instantly know which one is mine. :)
My first computer was a Hewlett Packard hand held programmable that would run up to seventy lines of code, you could buy a magnetic card with a program on it, or write your own.
Now I assemble my own every 3 years or so and currently need to do so again as mine is a P4 and out of date.