For how long have you been using a personal computer?
What do you use it for?
Where, in your home, is your PC? Do you have a special room for it? What else is at the same room? What do you have at your desk? Any pictures?
How different are your life and your personal routine with the PC than before you had it?
Do you share your computer with other family members?
For how long have you been using the Internet?
What do you do when the computer or your Internet connetction fail you? How do you feel?
Do you have many online friends? How have your personal relations with friends and family members changed with the use of the Internet?
What else can you tell me? ;)
Thank you for sharing your life with me and have a wonderful weekend! :)
2006-08-12 10:19:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
It's been a long time since I laid my hands on my first PC, which was an IBM PC about 23 years ago at my job in a pharmacy. Prior to having it, all the labels on every prescription vial, bottle, jar,whatever, were typed by individuals like me who could somehow fit all the legal info. needed on that tiny label, figure out a doctor's handwriting, know Latin and translate it and do it without any errors, or risk someone's health. It was tedious and high pressure when you did hundreds at a time, so when the IBM PC was programmed to do the manual task of that with me learning how to prompt it, it was a new era. My boss would take the afternoon off to go the horse races while I continued to program it and had a blast. Soon we weren't doing a couple hundred RX a day, more like a couple of thousand and it was boomtown. I went on to work for Rockwell Int'l. which had a contract with NASA and my dept. ordered all the parts for everything that was needed for the US Space Shuttle. The company intranet computers were essential.
Then I retired from that life, and bought my own home PC about 16 years ago, another IBM, which eventually became outdated and I had a new life going that didn't have a need for a computer--not even a cellphone.
That changed a year and a half ago when we decided to buy a emachine home PC, very sleek, that has enriched my life to do many, many things besides send a email to my family (we still like the phone). I live in a remote area, so I can keep up to date with anything, buy anything, learn anything, play a game with someone in China, it's endless. I collect beautiful photos from FlickR and made a screensaver slide show from photographers I like who live anywhere imaginable. We have a friend who is an artist and writer and is making his own movies from his poems onto CD ROM that we take home and watch and he burns DVD of classic movies we've never seen. I have my music collection on the PC to play while I'm on the internet or set to the visual art display if I'm just listening. It's great. I lost my cable connection a few months ago for several weeks and was bored and fidgety until it came back. It's brought the world into my little home and I think that's good.
2006-08-12 12:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by HisChamp1 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm where to begin. I can't believe that I was 17 years old when the PC came out.... good lord I am old. Anyway... the computer has revolutionized our lives... From news, music, movies to games... everything in our lives somehow involves a computer.
I can remember the first time I saw the TRS 80 ... (trash 80) from Radio Shack and thinking WOW I really want one of those! LOL> My first computer however was a TI- 99/4A... Hunt the Wumpus. What a lame game that was....
2006-08-12 17:32:00 · answer #2 · answered by blackwing873 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well i have been usin a computer since 2 grade and i love it,, im not sure when i started usin the internet really well,, the main use for my compture is to keep in touch with my family (the reason for my 360 page),, i have my computer set up in the living room so i can be on the computer and watch tv, and next to it is a huge tree stump that i use as the coffee table,, so yes i love my computer very much, she needs to be upgraded really bad, but i cant afford to do so, im runnin on windows 98 and have a cable internet connection
2006-08-12 17:26:48 · answer #3 · answered by SUNSHINE 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋