by Mudi on Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Ms DOS, Intel processor, 2 x 8 MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 3.5 inches FDD, black & white CRT monitor, Windows 3.0 Platform.
Sounds like 3 maybe 4 years old smart phone configuration, but its not. It was the configuration of the first computer which i used at the end of the 90s. the computer had the said configurations with a box like CPU, above that we kept the small B\W CRT monitor and the mouse whose roller ball was big as the standard cricket ball and it was upside where I don't need to move the mouse to point to the icons and files, we only had to move the ball proportion to the direction we need and click and to do that i needed the both hands and there was keyboard as heavy as cricket bat and big as well. On that computer i learned Q BASIC (which now I totally have no idea). At spare time i used to play Prince of Persia, pac-man, sky driving etc... they were the first computer games i played on a very small screen of the monitor with mono speakers.
The year was 2003 when i got my first new computer (which i still use as an alternative by upgrading some major components). It was HCL EzeeBEE with Intel Pentium III 1.8 Ghz, 128 MB SDR I RAM, DVD/CD-RW, 3.5 inches Floppy Disk Drive, 20 GB Hard Disk Drive, Windows 98 and 56 kbps internet modem. The whole set was in black before that all the computers and its accessories comes in boring white colour. On my computer i used to connect internet via telephone line named NetOne by BSNL. Whenever i connect the net it used to make some funny sound inside the main CPU's motherboard and the telephone line went busy. On day time i get speed upto 28 kbps but at night time after 11 pm it gets higher like 48 kbps. At that time Yahoo..! Messenger was at BOOM, so i used to chat all night with new people around the globe. At that time i didn't have a telephone line and o do that i have to wait till 1 pm sometime even late as my families living outside the city call at night time after 11 pm as after that the call rate goes down to 50% as well as internet. So it was hard for me to get access to internet. At that time all i wanted and prayed was to get an extension line of our telephone to talk with my friends and to use internet. Forget about getting a new telephone line, broadband, mobile, wi-fi etc.
But today i'm using AMD Phenom IIx4, 3.0 Ghz with quad core, Gigabyte 970A Motherboard, 2x 2GB RAM, 2x500 GB Hard Disk Drive, 2x DVD-RW ROM. I have 2 Smat Phone where i can talk to my friends anytime and can connect to net anyplace and have my own radio up on rooftop for internet which gives speed upto 4mbps. Technically now i have more than i had wanted at that time. At that time all i wanted were a little bit faster computer and an extension line of our home telephone line.
"An extension of the telephone line" thinking of this now i quietly smile to myself think how stupid i was because 'an extension line' was all i wanted but it all skipped as i went away from my room for higher studies but now i'm here remembering all those thing i had wanted in future which are now antiques.
My Future Then Becomes the History Now
Ms DOS, Intel processor, 2 x 8 MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 3.5 inches FDD, black & white CRT monitor, Windows 3.0 Platform.
Sounds like 3 maybe 4 years old smart phone configuration, but its not. It was the configuration of the first computer which i used at the end of the 90s. the computer had the said configurations with a box like CPU, above that we kept the small B\W CRT monitor and the mouse whose roller ball was big as the standard cricket ball and it was upside where I don't need to move the mouse to point to the icons and files, we only had to move the ball proportion to the direction we need and click and to do that i needed the both hands and there was keyboard as heavy as cricket bat and big as well. On that computer i learned Q BASIC (which now I totally have no idea). At spare time i used to play Prince of Persia, pac-man, sky driving etc... they were the first computer games i played on a very small screen of the monitor with mono speakers.
The year was 2003 when i got my first new computer (which i still use as an alternative by upgrading some major components). It was HCL EzeeBEE with Intel Pentium III 1.8 Ghz, 128 MB SDR I RAM, DVD/CD-RW, 3.5 inches Floppy Disk Drive, 20 GB Hard Disk Drive, Windows 98 and 56 kbps internet modem. The whole set was in black before that all the computers and its accessories comes in boring white colour. On my computer i used to connect internet via telephone line named NetOne by BSNL. Whenever i connect the net it used to make some funny sound inside the main CPU's motherboard and the telephone line went busy. On day time i get speed upto 28 kbps but at night time after 11 pm it gets higher like 48 kbps. At that time Yahoo..! Messenger was at BOOM, so i used to chat all night with new people around the globe. At that time i didn't have a telephone line and o do that i have to wait till 1 pm sometime even late as my families living outside the city call at night time after 11 pm as after that the call rate goes down to 50% as well as internet. So it was hard for me to get access to internet. At that time all i wanted and prayed was to get an extension line of our telephone to talk with my friends and to use internet. Forget about getting a new telephone line, broadband, mobile, wi-fi etc.
But today i'm using AMD Phenom IIx4, 3.0 Ghz with quad core, Gigabyte 970A Motherboard, 2x 2GB RAM, 2x500 GB Hard Disk Drive, 2x DVD-RW ROM. I have 2 Smat Phone where i can talk to my friends anytime and can connect to net anyplace and have my own radio up on rooftop for internet which gives speed upto 4mbps. Technically now i have more than i had wanted at that time. At that time all i wanted were a little bit faster computer and an extension line of our home telephone line.
"An extension of the telephone line" thinking of this now i quietly smile to myself think how stupid i was because 'an extension line' was all i wanted but it all skipped as i went away from my room for higher studies but now i'm here remembering all those thing i had wanted in future which are now antiques.
My Future Then Becomes the History Now
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