A decade, thats time for which i have been using my own PC's. Today when i am obsessed with computing power and memory, i still have that PC with me.
a note on its configuration:(what i remember)
-pentium processor (nothing more to describe it, at that time it was something special)
-16+8MB ram
-3.2GB hdd
-windows 95
-CD Drive(something uncommon that time)
-speakers
n additional UPS for around 10k.
The whole system cost my dad around 60-70k
while typing in my lenovoR61, which has RAM almost equal to the hdd size of my old pc(3GB RAM), i still believe that PCS system(forgot to mention earlier..vendor of that machine was PCS)played an important role what ever i have achieved till date. When i am supposed to start research on Information Systems in a few years time, i clearly remember how i used to love simulation games, i still. n ofcourse i did have an email id in the late 90s.
The system made me someone special in my high school. I used to allot time slots for my class mates to come home, n they all received equal opportunities to play against me. At times i liked playing single when they were all waiting. Those guys, many of them software engineers now working across the globe still remembers how cruel i was :). But still i am the one they consider as their 'guru' in this field.
During my senior secondary, the system remained almost untouched and in the vacations it refused to come back to life. Then the inevitable happened. Upgradation!!! A new board, 40GB hdd, 256MB of RAM n Windows 98. This time no refusal to a new life. Me, Dilip and this PC occupied our C-3 room in the mens hostel of GEC Thrissur. The grad years saw many changes in her, from speed to burns. But still it managed to cope up with new kids across the hostel with whom there was new technology n style. She was there for seminars to projects. n was connected to the www almost 24 hours a day...
In 2008,she still manages to boot up the XP in her, occasionaly finds it difficult to find her hard disk, but after few reboots manages to display,login screen
Welcome Sudeep...Enter your password...
a note on its configuration:(what i remember)
-pentium processor (nothing more to describe it, at that time it was something special)
-16+8MB ram
-3.2GB hdd
-windows 95
-CD Drive(something uncommon that time)
-speakers
n additional UPS for around 10k.
The whole system cost my dad around 60-70k
while typing in my lenovoR61, which has RAM almost equal to the hdd size of my old pc(3GB RAM), i still believe that PCS system(forgot to mention earlier..vendor of that machine was PCS)played an important role what ever i have achieved till date. When i am supposed to start research on Information Systems in a few years time, i clearly remember how i used to love simulation games, i still. n ofcourse i did have an email id in the late 90s.
The system made me someone special in my high school. I used to allot time slots for my class mates to come home, n they all received equal opportunities to play against me. At times i liked playing single when they were all waiting. Those guys, many of them software engineers now working across the globe still remembers how cruel i was :). But still i am the one they consider as their 'guru' in this field.
During my senior secondary, the system remained almost untouched and in the vacations it refused to come back to life. Then the inevitable happened. Upgradation!!! A new board, 40GB hdd, 256MB of RAM n Windows 98. This time no refusal to a new life. Me, Dilip and this PC occupied our C-3 room in the mens hostel of GEC Thrissur. The grad years saw many changes in her, from speed to burns. But still it managed to cope up with new kids across the hostel with whom there was new technology n style. She was there for seminars to projects. n was connected to the www almost 24 hours a day...
In 2008,she still manages to boot up the XP in her, occasionaly finds it difficult to find her hard disk, but after few reboots manages to display,login screen
Welcome Sudeep...Enter your password...
1 comment:
I still remember my first computer too. It was a laptop. It was way back in 1998 or something. My dad had come home for vacation and he brought his laptop along. When he returned...he left the laptop behind for me. Then I was a computer illiterate. I hardly knew to turn or and turn off the computer...ha..ha.. But even then I was aware of cyber porn and all that good shit. So first thing I did was convince my mom to get a net connection. But I had no clue how to browse internet or anything. I didnt even know that you needed some kind of browser like Internet Explorer or Fire fox to browse to browse. I was so very frustrated. It was so funny. Yeahh..... I was an idiot then... I didnt bother to find out all the other million good things about internet...but only cyber sex.. he..he.. I know what a jackass I was..!!
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