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CalumAdministrator

What Was Your First Computer?

Hi. What was your first ever computer?

Mine was a Windows 95 with a 2 Gb hardrive. 64mb ram and a pentium 1 processor.

What was yours?

30-06-2008 06:10 PM OS MasterModerator

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

My first computer was a Compaq Presario. It had Windows 95, a 6 GB hard drive (which I still use as a backup), 64 MB of RAM, and ~400 Mhz processor. Those were the days...

30-06-2008 06:22 PM calum

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

Yeah, those were the days.

I still remeber my dial up connection where it would take about 2 mins to connect, load pages in about 1 min and then disconect after 5 mins

30-06-2008 06:30 PM Sava

Member

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

I still have my first computer. I bought it from my money since my parents couldn't afford one. It has 1.8 MHz processor, 512 RAM and a 64 MB video card ... I believe it's an ATI RADEON

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1. Look through the forum body. Say what parts a message consists of.

2. What was your first computer? Fill in the forum cell below!

Date _______ time _________

YOU

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

3. Ask your partners about their computers and make a shortlist of computers we all had in “those days”!

Listen and Talk

Record 5b (from InfoTech)

Buying “Apples”

You are going to hear two people making enquiries in a Macintosh computer shop. The shop assistant is telling them about the two models below. Listen and fill in the missing information.

iBook Processor speed............ Ram standard.......... Hard disk capacity.......... Price £1207 DVD and Mac OS included?.......

iMac Processor speed 1Ghz Ram standard............ Hard disk capacity............. Price .............. DVD and Mac OS included?........

Now listen to the talk and fill in the gaps. Reproduce the talk after you complete it.

Assistant: Do you need any help?

Paul: Um yes. we're looking for a personal computer. Have you got any fairly ________ ones?

Assistant: Yes, sure. If you'd like to come over here...

Paul: What different ___________ are there?

Assistant: At the moment we've got these two models: The iMac, which is a _________ computer with a ___________ operating at 1 gigahertz, and the portable iBook, which has a processor __________ at 700 megahertz.

Sue: So the iMac is the ____________ one/ And which one has the most ________? I mean - which has the most _________?

Assistant: Well, the iMac has _________megabytes of ____________ which can be ______________ up to 1 gigabyte, and the iBook has _______ megabytes which can be expanded up to _____________. It all depends on your needs. The iMac is duitable for home useres and small offices. The iBook is ideal for students and for people who travel.

Have fun

/* Stories from Tech Support */

Caller: 'Hello, is this Tech Support?'

Tech: 'Yes, it is. How may I help you?'

Caller: 'The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?'

Tech: 'I'm sorry, but did you say a 'cup holder'?

Caller: 'Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer.'

Tech: 'Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped; it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotion, like at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?'

Caller: 'It came with my computer, I don't know anything about a promotional. It just has '4X' on it.'

- Why is the Tech support assistant stumped?