Comments on: The First Time I Used a Computer http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/ Stuff we find interesting... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jon http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/#comment-39 Jon Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:47:13 +0000 http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/#comment-39 Forgot to mention that our 286 Packard Bell was also from Sears. I still remember when the local Sears stopped selling computer stuff, and we all were so disappointed and thought it was very weird. Where were we going to find our computer games now? Forgot to mention that our 286 Packard Bell was also from Sears. I still remember when the local Sears stopped selling computer stuff, and we all were so disappointed and thought it was very weird. Where were we going to find our computer games now?

]]> By: Jon http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/#comment-38 Jon Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:44:04 +0000 http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/#comment-38 Amber makes a good point about kids these days almost more thinking that computers are a way to get to the internet. Sure, later in life maybe they'll learn a couple things the computer can also do, but I think primarily it will be the internet that is the generational gap. As to the first question, when I was in 2nd grade, our private school (probably even smaller than yours, Adam!) got an old Apple IIe in each of the 2 classrooms. I remember using appleworks for a little bit of typing and some sort of database thing, though I don't remember what it was for. I also remember playing Carmen Sandiego, Matterhorn Screamer, and Oregon Trails. I think we got our first computer at home in '89 (thats the 1900s, for all you two-aught whippersnappers) it was a 286 Packard Bell. Lots of games and GW-BASIC. Also my first use of Lotusworks. Was a fine old office-like suite. The internet though, at school we didn't get that for the students until probably '98, and at home it around '99 I'd say (at which point we realized that that old 286 wasn't going to cut it anymore and upgraded). Amber makes a good point about kids these days almost more thinking that computers are a way to get to the internet. Sure, later in life maybe they’ll learn a couple things the computer can also do, but I think primarily it will be the internet that is the generational gap.

As to the first question, when I was in 2nd grade, our private school (probably even smaller than yours, Adam!) got an old Apple IIe in each of the 2 classrooms. I remember using appleworks for a little bit of typing and some sort of database thing, though I don’t remember what it was for. I also remember playing Carmen Sandiego, Matterhorn Screamer, and Oregon Trails. I think we got our first computer at home in ‘89 (thats the 1900s, for all you two-aught whippersnappers) it was a 286 Packard Bell. Lots of games and GW-BASIC. Also my first use of Lotusworks. Was a fine old office-like suite.

The internet though, at school we didn’t get that for the students until probably ‘98, and at home it around ‘99 I’d say (at which point we realized that that old 286 wasn’t going to cut it anymore and upgraded).

]]> By: Amber http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/#comment-37 Amber Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:51:49 +0000 http://www.adam-amber.com/2007/02/10/the-first-time-i-used-a-computer/#comment-37 I am very thankful for computers or I may have never met the greatest man in my life :-D. I remember using computers when I was in grade school. I remember using very basic computer programs in kindergarten. I think the school still has the same computers. It was a few years once I was in private schools before we had a lab. I remember early on in grade school playing DOS games. Who didn't love Oregon Trails. At home I think we got our first computer a handme down old Apple that played bog floppy disk games. I think that was when I was in junior high. It was a big deal that it had a gray and white screen rather then a black and green screen. We didn't get connected to the internet until I was a junior in high school I think. That was another hand me down computer. I have been connected ever since. I do not know if I could ever go back from using a computer daily or having a lap top to cart all over the school district. The kids in my class have always had computers around. It is strange to think that they do not know the world without having them at their touch. They also do not understand why anyone would want or need a computer without the internet attached to it. I am very thankful for computers or I may have never met the greatest man in my life :-D.

I remember using computers when I was in grade school. I remember using very basic computer programs in kindergarten. I think the school still has the same computers. It was a few years once I was in private schools before we had a lab. I remember early on in grade school playing DOS games. Who didn’t love Oregon Trails. At home I think we got our first computer a handme down old Apple that played bog floppy disk games. I think that was when I was in junior high. It was a big deal that it had a gray and white screen rather then a black and green screen. We didn’t get connected to the internet until I was a junior in high school I think. That was another hand me down computer. I have been connected ever since. I do not know if I could ever go back from using a computer daily or having a lap top to cart all over the school district.

The kids in my class have always had computers around. It is strange to think that they do not know the world without having them at their touch. They also do not understand why anyone would want or need a computer without the internet attached to it.

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