Basic Compter Terms (1976)

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I was 7 years old back then.

The film features Harry, a business person overwhelmed by his back orders and unfamiliar with computers. Jane, a computer expert, explains basic computer concepts, including hardware, software, input, processing, memory, and output. She reassures Harry that computers are not to be feared, as they simply process information faster than humans. Through their conversation, Harry learns how to use a computer to manage his business more efficiently, ultimately leading to improvements in his work.

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I was 12.

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Back then I liked playing in the sandpit more than with computers :rofl:

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I was -3. didn’t use a computer until 1992 for the first time.

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I think the first time I used a computer was my senior year in high school, 1982. Some sort of IBM computer, large by today’s standards. The first time I used an OS on a computer was around 1985 with the Macintosh 512K. Exactly like this one…

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I only started using Windows in the 90s. A friend of mine who was a nerd installed a cracked Windows 2000 for me. It ran for me until 2006. After that I switched to Linux

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The first computer I used was a Commodore PET at school and the first computer I owned was a Commodore VIC20.

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The very first PC I must have used has been a Olivetti 8086, similiar to this M24 … But I can’t really recall which model it exactly has been and don’t have any pictures from that time.But I do still have vivid memories of playing pinball as well as sokoban on that machine.

These are one of my earliest memories, back in 1985 or so. had my own first 386DX40 in 1990. Was using Windows for a long time, switched to MacOSX during my studies and it was my first choice for more than 10 years. But due to apples price policies, I switched to a hackintosh on a budget.

Which has been 3 times worse than a arch install being blindfolded in combination with compiling gentoo from scratch unsuccessfully, twice.

One system breaking upgrade attempt later the secondary windows installation on that hackintosh hardware became my daily driver. And so my time with MacOS came to an end.

I finally switched to EndeavourOS on a new desktop system which I’ve build last year. Have tried linux several times over the years and used debian based distros such as DietPi on SBCs, headless. Or crunchbang on pretty old hardware, for some months. Just for the sake of tinkering. Due to the nature of MacOS and homebrew as a (unofficial) package manager, based on Unix, sharing a lot of the same nomenclature… it’s actually not that hard to switch over.

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That was my first too.

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If you used an IBM in 1982, you did use an operating system, it was probably called DOS. :vulcan_salute:

Btw, my first home computer used was a Tandy TRS-80 Model III with BASIC. It had a whopping 16K of RAM and 16K of ROM. Mass storage was an external cassette player/recorder.

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A friend’s father worked with IBM, back in the days, and he owned an IBM PPC 5155, which he carried around all the time. It was a portable PC, after all! Sometimes we were allowed to use it, and what a modern and great thing it was for us then!

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I had just started my first year at university. In 1981, I began playing with microcomputers (like @MyNameIsRichard, I started with a VIC-20), began programming with BASIC and 6502 assembler, and was published in the Apr 1986 issue of “Compute! Gazette”. I began working as a programmer in 1987.

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In 1976 I was 26 years old, married, and had two children.

My first home computer was a Sinclair Z81 kit. That’s right, one had to build it.

Pudge

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Yep, indeed. Not quite an OS as we know them today, that’s for sure. I barely remember using “applications” back then, let alone the OS.

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I think Pudge is the eldest of the responders. I was but 20 years old.

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I programmed in both Basic and 6502 Assembler too. I even had a cartridge that contained an assembler and various other programming tools. I remember that the cartridge and a book on vic20 assembly language cost me all my birthday money as well as most of my savings :grimacing:

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Ah, 1976! Fond memories… I was 17 then, already attending lectures in our university after school since 3 years (because school was boring, and the IBM 360 at U much more fascinating), just getting my driver’s license. Soldering together a VT100-bus DIY Z80 computer at home, having a Teletype 33 as a printer. Started a brief 2-year career in electronics the year after, before I finally went into IT as a profession.

Oh, and Klaus Schulze’s Moondawn album came out in 1976. Met him personally in 1979, and his “Berlin School” type of electronic music has accompanied me since. RIP, Klaus!

What a nice circle of experienced OM here! I still don’t plan to ever get old, though. :wink:

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Gosh, you made me be 40 years younger. My first computer was a Synclair Z80 in 1985, then I got a Tandy desktop that had only 2 floppy disks in like 1990.

I miss the good old days of DOS 3.1!

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i was born in 1970 too, and started using a pc with win98 on , don’t know what year that was lol.
well that was my 1st experience with computrz…that time was the $h!ts ! :rofl:

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Poor boy! :rofl:
You really missed a lot.
That time as far as I remember I can’t remember anything like computer freezing or crashing.
It just worked.

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