The First Computer in My Life
Long before Ned knows what a computer is, we've already have a computer
at home!
As I could remember, the very first computer that my family owns was an Apple
computer. I was in primary school at that time, I didn't know what model it is, cause I
was too young and had no computer knowledge. (Well, I know it's not so young for primary
school children to use computers now, but it was in my age!)
That computer has a green mono monitor, an external floppy disk drive, a joystick and
the main computer case with the keyboard attached to it.
I didn't know why father bought that computer actually. He
almost never use it! Me? I didn't even how to turn it on! Though I wanted to turn it on
all the time, however, I can't figured it out, and my father didn't want to teach me. It
was just like a high-tech decoration in my home!
Video Game Machine
Until one day, my cousin came to my home. He turned on the computer to play! It was
really amazing! Before he left, he secretly told me how to turn on the computer! It was so
surprise for me to know that the power button was on the back of the computer!
From that day on, I began to treat the computer as a video game
machine! (Nintendo do exist at that time! However, my mother didn't allow me to buy one.)
The computer was very easy to start up to play games! Just turn it on and put the disk
into the disk drive! Much easier than Windows95's auto play thing! I played Choplifiter,
Donkey Kong, Space Invaders... That was so exciting!
Well, this "video game machine" didn't last long. One
day, my little sister wanted to play the computer games. She took out the floppy disks and
tried to put them into the drive, however, what she did had damaged all the disks
actually. I didn't know what she have done to the disks, what I know was that all the
disks were folded and scratched when I came home from school...
I was very sad, cause those were the only disks I had, and I didn't know where to get
them back anymore.
After that, every time I turned on the computer, I played
around with texts which my uncle taught me. Like this:
10 PRINT "HH HH EEEEEE LL LL
OOOOOO !!"
20 PRINT "HH HH EE LL
LL OO OO !!"
30 PRINT "HHHHHH EEEEEE LL LL
OO OO !!"
40 PRINT "HH HH EE LL
LL OO OO
"
50 PRINT "HH HH EEEEEE LLLLLL LLLLLL OOOOOO !!"
Interesting? You may think that doing these are stupid, but
that's already an interesting "game" to me at that time. ^.^
However, this "game machine" doesn't last long neither, after some time,
the whole system has gone down, and it was then never got up again.
Now, this very first computer in my life has already disappeared on earth...
My First
Computer
