2025-06-06
• fifty-in-fifty • 154 words
What do you remember about your first computer and learning to use it?
My first computer was a typical Windows 8 Machine (later W10) that was fairly easy to use. The problem with it was that it only had 4GB of RAM which made playing games difficult. I always liked the aesthetic of DOS though, and would kill explorer.exe and open up cmd.exe to make it feel like I was on a terminal. Now I am on Linux regularly, this is literally what I use the whole time (I am always in the terminal, or the browser, and have a tiling window manager (river atm)).
I wasn't in the old days of PDP-11s of Commodores, though, so I didn't have the joy of that, and writing BASIC or Pascal on the terminals of yore. I wish I did, honestly - but I can still do it nowadays! (I actually recently bought myself, for the fun of reading, a Teach Yourself! Pascal book, from the Teach Yourself series normally containing language learning books.)