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Monday, December 25, 2006

Remembering my First Encounter with Technology

I reminisce the days when...
  1. Using a 5.25 floppy disk to boot a PC.
  2. Looking at a monochrome monitor.
  3. Afraid of dropping my floppy disk because it can get a computer virus.
  4. Booting DOS, took 5 minutes.
  5. Using an Intel Pentum Pro 166 PC
  6. Using mouse for the first time.
  7. Installing my first upgrade a 8mb EDO RAM for my PC
  8. Using a computer with no hardrive, just 2 floppy drive, one for DOS and the other for application.
  9. Typing my documents using Wordstar 4.0 and upgraded to wordperfect (now i can insert graphics).
  10. Using Windows 3.1 for the first time.
  11. Using windows 95 and watching the Blue screen of death.
  12. Printing in Dot Matrix (Too noisy ) :)
  13. Reinstalling windows 95 over and over.
  14. Watching the drum being rattled in the installation of windows for over 30 mins.
  15. Writing a Hello program in different programming language.
  16. Rebooting my PC when an infinite loop happens in my program.
  17. Being infected with CIH Virus that wipe out my entire hardisk.
  18. Using turbo pascal,turbo c, basica, foxbase and dbase iv in programming.
  19. Playing Jeopardy with a green pixalated screen.
  20. Writing my first Computer Virus http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://inet.trendmicro.co.jp/virusinfo/isp/default3.asp%3FVName%3DW97M_ANGEL&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Davenging%2Bangel%2Bmacro%2Bvirus%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
  21. that spreads :).
  22. Writing assembly program.
  23. Using COBOL in programming database application.
  24. Playing Tekken in PlayStation.
  25. Playing Game & Watch.
  26. Playing Pacman in arcade.

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