Computer Experience Evolution

[doobit]

The first "computer" I used ran on machine language and computed using blinkin LEDs. The more important one probably was some form of Unix, but I was to young and inexperienced to know what. It was a Digital Equipment terminal in my high school that was connected to the University of Delaware supercomputer. It was a printer terminal - there was no CRT monitor. We used to have fun making banners on it using Basic. What a waste of paper. Afer that I bought a used Radio Shack TRS-80. Then one of the first "IBM clones" with no hard drive. Ran DOS 1.1 from a 5.25 floppy. I used to write document files and whatever other data to the same disk, which shows you how small MSDOS was. My copy of MSDOS was pirated.

[yatt]

Windows 3.1
Mac OS *-9 (at school)
~about 7 years of no home computer~
Windows ME
Windows XP
Ubuntu 4.10
Ubuntu 5.04
Windows XP
~purchased my own PC~
Windows XP/ SUSE 10.0 (Breezy just wouldn't boot)
Win XP/ Ubuntu Dapper (Since its 2nd Alpha)
Win XP/ Edgy
Edgy

Other distros have made week long appearances, but I really do not think it was worth adding.

*I cannot remember which version, but I remember the desktop being gray scale, even though it could do color).

[Mr.Auer]

W00t, you missed like .. tons of em!
I started on a C64 and VIC20, mostly used the 64. For years had two disk drives as well, a printer and a plotter. Coded basic on it etc.. Was 3 yrs old when we got our first one in 1983.

After that was the beloved Atari STfm 1040, in 1988 id think. With a black and white highres (640x400 if i remember) monitor, and fm tuner for low and midres from tv. Atari was the coolest Still have an Atari emulatro on my linux box for some old time fun.

After that it was downhill, to DOS with 8088, win 3.1, 98, XP...

And then I saw the light, computing fas fun again and I owned my own computer
Linux in 2003.

[bluenova]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum (BASIC)
Amstrad 8512 (whatever the Amstrad ran CP/M I think)
Amstrad 9512
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
A bit of Red Hat and SUSE
Windows ME (For a very short time before going back to '98)
Windows 2000
Windows XP
A bit of Fedora Core
Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog
Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake
Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft
Kubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn

Something special happened in April '05 and it stuck ever since.