A couple of days back, in a conversation with a friend DN, we began talking about our first computers and our first internet experiences. That nostalgic conversation made it imperative for me to put my memories down for posterity…
Whatever little I remember about my first 🖥 is that it was an assembled machine! We would ring up our local computer uncle & he would come with the different parts – VDU, CPU, keyboard & 🐁- & put it all together.
What a bulky machine the assembled paraphernalia would look like… Pretty sure that if the monitor fell on anybody’s foot, the latter would break! And then the floppy disks – ‘writing programs on them’ based on whatever we were learning in school.
And then the click of the mouse… Click click! Also an excitement to get a beautiful mousepad. And this entire primitive assembly would be fraught with problems & would crash at the drop of the hat…
But, more than the computer itself, I remember the first Internet connections! It was a dialup & made a fantastically annoying “kirr kirr chee chee” sound. Getting connected was a game of chance…
Staying connected was a miracle! One 📞 on the land-line & kaput. And we couldn’t browse the internet for too long because – inflated telephone bill…
We’ve really come a long, long way since then! Can you imagine telling all this to a GenZ & expecting them to believe & understand?
Write about your first computer.
