Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Computers Advent: Endearing Friendship-part I

Regulation-Late 80s ... Place-India ... Technology-computers ... School boy takes first turn on your computer. He becomes the first hands on a computer that fascinates him no end! He stare, similar TV-screen, he considers it the keyboard ... Welcome to open its doors in inquisitive kid computers in the world ...

I consider myself very privileged to have as part of the dawn of the era of computers in India and the wonderful endearing. School boy it was the first meeting was this magic with the computer player, a computer that has the meaning given to it was endearing to mount, which last a lifetime friendship at the beginning of the

At that time, Computers were very sensitive to gadgets.We had a big computer room of our school housing some of the 50 odd PCs. were so vociferously exemplified all of us to make sure that your computer must be protected against damp and dust of any spec, our computer room stood proudly tall fitted with 6 Air conditioners at the same time as the owning AC was out-n-out luxury in itself. We were all necessary to free flight at our shoes and place them outside the diluted line before you can proceed to the Holy group.

The computers that we had at that time, basic, there are two types of were-IBM PC and the BBC-computer.Your computer's processor used in the Tower type processors that we have today (more a VCR) frame horizontally. Used two departure feed to drive, a floppy drive (a) and (b), which were the posts (a) and (b) monitor the drive. At the beginning, we are accustomed to floppies was a great 5 3/4 inch disks, and it was much later that 3.25-inch floppy disks have become many years later is present. The use of such an exciting Prospect, only your floppy positioning and locking notch and booted up your computer.

Therefore, when we took our places in our computers share one PC between two students, our teacher began his normal rounds are engaged in "Bootable Disk" in his hand and our computers to start us one at a time. At that time had no hard disks: blow:-difficult to imagine today, but its true! You'll be amazed at the way it sounds, the computer actually starts from the floppy disk, and all of its wonderful force working on the mere random access memory (RAM) and runs it was instructed to do:) showed What we today casually refer to today, the operating system was the days referred to in the Disk Operating System (DOS), and in most cases, had almost certainly can be found on the question paper extends throughout the form.

Floppy disk in the box used for treasure, all of us each of us is a proud one and display it with. Content on behalf of the two most popular brands Amkette-that these times there had been much sought after at stationer shops in the immediate vicinity of the hot property!You can only wonder if those brands got lost in the world: () as today Technology batteries, which was pretty much quieter and set out in the back, and, therefore, this new little tech case came as soothing shower of deprived race tech thirsty generation:) jäähdytetäänKustannuslaskennan anywhere between 30 and 40 rupees or abuse, was that at the age of the collection of floppies. No wonder we used to be proud of our disk boxes, as we are now, our mobiles!I remember the time when the magazine was brought by one of the problems its freedom to a floppy disk was mad rush times, Grab a copy of the mag among the children of the school!I must confess the same given export at least 10 copies of the useless magazine is MU.What times they were!

OK, so back to my computer class 80s, start your computer and all the defined to go, the next step was to load the BASIC Language teacher from her to the other computer is "master floppies"-as we are.Bingo!, and we were ready for: DYstäväni was for me the chance to play with and talk does not proceed to analyse its waiting for one at the same time, I was eager. new found friend and is a precondition, first there is a need for better information for the language)

No join me in my journey to our future problems of this series "Lost technology computers. I hope you liked the first edition of our weekly series on the basis of experience gained. So wait for the next Edition-the same time, same place – and we promise the journey can be endearing and remember!

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