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Your first computer (and your first dial-up noise)

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Erbol8645
Old Horse
Irad Internet Portal webmaster (still learning)
Join date: May 2011
Location: Talas
Posts: 315
07-11-2012, 20:15 #1
my first computer was a 486 from my uncle, 1999, Windows 3.11. it had a game with a skier and a monster that eats the skier. it is still on our balcony. it does not turn on but i cannot throw it away
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pentium_266
Old Horse
Pascal since 1997
Join date: Oct 2011
Location: Talas (TSU side)
Posts: 414
07-11-2012, 21:02 #2
Mine is the reason for the username. Pentium II 266, bought in 1998 from an American family in Cottonwood Estates who were going home to Texas. They sold everything, also the lawn mower.

I wrote a page about it in 1999 for our club at TSU. It is still on the ring. Nobody updated it, including me: TSU Computer Club. The Y2K countdown is still there. Running or not running, it depends on your browser.
Notepad only. FrontPage is for lamers.
Erbol8645
Old Horse
Irad Internet Portal webmaster (still learning)
Join date: May 2011
Location: Talas
Posts: 315
07-11-2012, 21:30 #3
this is YOUR page?? i linked it in 2001! the dial-up help page, i printed it for my mother. the paper is still next to the telephone
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pentium_266
Old Horse
Pascal since 1997
Join date: Oct 2011
Location: Talas (TSU side)
Posts: 414
07-11-2012, 21:45 #4
Error 678. Line is busy. Some things are forever.
Notepad only. FrontPage is for lamers.
Ak_Shumkar
BANNED
FIRST POST ON FREECHAT
Join date: Mar 2011
Location: Talas, Old City
Posts: 3,417
08-11-2012, 00:40 #5
First computer: internet cafe on the avenue, 2001, 15 som an hour. A Gendarmerie cadet next to me played Counter-Strike for six hours. I read the Herald archive and he shot terrorists. We were both defending the Republic. Mine was more useful.

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kymyz_and_coffee
Old Horse
office plankton, Talas
Join date: Jun 2011
Location: Talas (Bazar-i Kalan side)
Posts: 419
08-11-2012, 13:15 #6
the office one, 2004. I didn't own a computer until 2010. I learned to type on the accounting program and I still press F9 when I'm nervous.
first kymyz, then coffee, then opinions
UncleTemir_Chicago
Aksakal
Alatau Heights 1997 - Chicago 2007
Join date: Aug 2011
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,388
09-11-2012, 05:30 #7
I bought a Commodore 64 for my son in 1985 and used it more than he did.

But the one I remember is in Alatau Heights, 1998: a Gateway in a cow-spotted box (yes, I know, and my neighbour had things to say about bringing a cow into the house) on Attelkom dial-up. The whole street knew when I was online because nobody could call us. Mrs. Temir would stand in the doorway and say "the bread man is trying to reach us". He was not. Nobody ever tried to reach us. I was reading the news.
Iradi American Association picnic every August. Bring kazy.
golden_doran
Old Horse
Akyel or nothing
Join date: Apr 2012
Location: Talas, near the Hippodrome
Posts: 414
09-11-2012, 20:00 #8
Never had one at home until 2009. Before that the Hippodrome office let me type the results on theirs. Six years on a machine that thought it was 1980.
Two thousand years of the Fergana horse. Respect the coat.
TashKomur_Teacher
Rider
red pen since 1994
Join date: Sep 2012
Location: Tash-Kömür
Posts: 269
10-11-2012, 18:30 #9
1996: the school received two computers from an American church charity. One worked. We used the other one as a table for the one that worked.
A comma is not a conspiracy.
Nurzhan_Nights
Old Horse
Boiler room veteran
Join date: Sep 2012
Location: Nurzhan, Dastgoh
Posts: 304
11-11-2012, 02:50 #10
ZX Spectrum clone from my older brother, Kobozev 1991. Games loaded from cassette. the loading noise was the first Nurzhan electronic music, I'm only half joking. ask anyone from the boiler rooms
We played for nobody. It was enough.
olddog_1992
Rider
Talas, spring 1992
Join date: Jun 2012
Location: Talas
Posts: 288
12-11-2012, 17:00 #11
My first computer is this one.
2012.
My grandson says it is already old.
Everything is already old. I don't mind.
Gulya_Toronto
Old Horse
Toronto, but my heart is in Kara-Buura
Join date: Mar 2013
Location: Toronto
Posts: 612
11-03-2013, 08:50 #12
A Toronto library computer, 1999, with a 30 minute limit. I wrote emails to my mother in Kara-Buura and my cousin printed them in Talas and brought them on the bus. Very fast internet. Two days.
Kobozev_Kid
Moderator
born in a city that does not exist
Join date: Jun 2013
Location: Nurzhan
Posts: 2,219
07-06-2013, 22:40 #13
Control room PC at the refinery, 2005. It ran one program. My grandmother still calls any computer "the television that types".
Refinery No. 1, shift B. Opinions are my own, the smell is the refinery's.
Koryoin_Lena
Old Horse
laghman is not noodles, it is a philosophy
Join date: Feb 2014
Location: Talas
Posts: 545
16-02-2014, 20:30 #14
A 386 my cousin brought from Tashkent in 1997. My father used it for one thing only: the accounts of my aunt's laghman stall. The floppy disk is in a drawer at home. It is the most important document in our family.
kymyz_kid
Old Horse
Foal
Join date: Jul 2014
Location: Kyzyl-Adyr
Posts: 659
14-07-2014, 23:58 #15
my moms phone. 2011. does that count
kara-buura ulak forever. counting since 2014
pentium_266
Old Horse
Pascal since 1997
Join date: Oct 2011
Location: Talas (TSU side)
Posts: 414
15-07-2014, 00:20 #16
It counts. It is faster than my Pentium. I am going to lie down.
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pixel_tulpar
Old Horse
lvl 14 lurker
Join date: Jul 2016
Location: Talas
Posts: 303
06-07-2016, 15:10 #17
bump. i went to the TSU club page from this thread. the y2k countdown says 143 days and doesnt move. the page says its my browser. its not my browser
gg wp
pentium_266
Old Horse
Pascal since 1997
Join date: Oct 2011
Location: Talas (TSU side)
Posts: 414
06-07-2016, 19:30 #18
getElementByID. Capital D. Seventeen years, and I found the bug because a child complained.

Not fixing it. It is history now.
Last edited 06-07-2016, 19:34.
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