Most memorable (best) PC moments..

here's a few of mine:

- seeing a colour photo for the first time that wasnt on a mac (in pagemaker 2 win3)

- running the first chicago beta that actually had the startbar

- getting the beta of quake1 to finally work - and moving around in 3d enviroment for the first time (unlike doom2)

- the demise of trumpet winsock (or whatever it was)
- Nashville / ie4 releases-  finally goodbye netscape
- getting multiple monitors to work
- seeing/using ICQ for the first time - and sending them a file!
- Corel 4 - 2 cds of clipart and FONTS for pc
- Corel 8 -  added property bar (like o12 ribbon bar only years ago)

- Getting my computer to say "Hello World!" at the tender age of 5
- Getting multiple monitors to work for the first time
  (286 - An EGA and a CGA on the same ISA bus. Clone mode only)
- My first terabyte
- Every upgrade I ever got in a box
- Channel9 launch
- Coding my first website in PICO and reading it in LYNX
- My first blog comment.  Call me cynical.
- First install of Windows 3.1
- My first digicam

When my Grandmother got me my first Apple II,
When my grandmother got me a NeXTCube.
When I installed my first BSD install and it worked
When I went into the Navy and changed my MOS and got to use HP-UX and Solaris
When I first got "online"
Red Hat 5.2
Windows XP's watercolor interface
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
The Launch of OpenOffice.org
Getting Darwin to boot on an iTanium server

jamie wrote:

here's a few of mine:

- seeing a colour photo for the first time that wasnt on a mac (in pagemaker 2 win3)

- running the first chicago beta that actually had the startbar

- getting the beta of quake1 to finally work - and moving around in 3d enviroment for the first time (unlike doom2)

- the demise of trumpet winsock (or whatever it was)
- Nashville / ie4 releases-  finally goodbye netscape
- getting multiple monitors to work
- seeing/using ICQ for the first time - and sending them a file!
- Corel 4 - 2 cds of clipart and FONTS for pc
- Corel 8 -  added property bar (like o12 ribbon bar only years ago)

My first hello world in a ZX81 (1985)

10 For N 1 to 100
20 Print "Hello World!";
30 Next N

Run 10

Mount my own BBS 
The Fidonet Groups
My first email account using QWK messages and UUDP
My Newton MessagePad
Install OS/2 v2.0 and 2.1
Windows NT 3.1 beta
My Thinkpad 701c butterfly
DOOM
My QuickTake 200

1) Getting an Apple IIc
2) Building my own Word processing program a short time later
3) Getting the first command of my own homegrown OS to work
4) Getting a 486 PC (1995)
5) Going online for the first time (1995)
6) Getting TOSed out of an AOL chatroom (1995)
7) Porting a spinning 3-D cube program from the Apple II to DOS to Windows 3.1 to Windows 98 (using polar equations and my own perspective rendering formulas)
8) Posting on a forum for the first time: get this...here
 
:O

1) Shorting out my Pentium classic motherboard and causing it to smoke and die.

2) Managing to manually scan through 8000+ files and remove 254 virus and trojain files from Windows XP to gain back control of my machine.

3) Adding a SuperCPU 20 MHz extention to my C64, 3.5 floppy drive and a fast loader BIOS chip called ZiffyDOS chip and drilling holes for the on and off switch.

4) Creating my first breakout/pong type game in Liberty Basic 2.0.

5) Creating my own virus that deleted my Windows 98 system files and required full re-installation.

6) Making my own vacuum tube triode amplifier using free circuit diagram software.


Regards,
Vincent

Seeing my home planet from space for the first time... oh, wait...

Of course it was waiting the 5 minutes for that first soft p0rn pic to download.

Come on... most of you were there at one point. 

First program (TRS-80 Model 1 with Level 1 Basic, 1977)

First significant program - a Lunar Lander clone (TRS-80, 1977)

First program I got paid for - a window construction estimator for HP41C calculators (1980)

First PC job (DB work on mailing lists, tech support, 1982)

First computer I owned (Kaypro, 1983)

First dial-up connection from home (300 baud, 1983)

First job as a programmer (PC game development, 1984)

First time I ran that game on a PC AT and realized yes, I would have to fix all the timing loops (1984)

Unsoldering the Intel 8088 on my PC to solder in a socket and replace it with a NEC V20 plus a new clock chip to 6 mhz (1984)

First Mac program working (written with Workbench & Pascal, 1984)

First Windows install (v1.0 and barely functional, 1985)

First machine I built myself - a clone 386/25, with 640K and 3MB expanded/extended memory board (1986)

First program for Windows (communications app, 1986)

First hardware destroyed by software (monochrome monitor being overdriven by a driver I was working on, 1987)

First app I worked on that shipped over a million copies (BitCom via OEM distribution, 1988)

First app I worked on that was on a retail bestseller list (Professor DOS, 1990)

First Windows app that was a bestseller (Learn to Use Windows, 1992)

That's enough for now ...

(air sound) "whooosh!"

ok ok you win! Uncle!!! your hired!

haha good one bruce

When I finally "got" extended vs. expanded memory.

My first mouse (a logitech 3 button).

Using the prompt command to make it look like the user is in edlin in the college CAD lab that I tutored.

DCMonkey wrote:

When I finally "got" extended vs. expanded memory.

My first mouse (a logitech 3 button).

Using the prompt command to make it look like the user is in edlin in the college CAD lab that I tutored.

Geez, am I the only one to shove a Colecovision game into an Apple ][ slot to see if i would work

I also played the text(graphics made by text) game Moria a lot on our 8MHz Packard Bell AT(or was it an XT?). Can still find versions of it floating around...makes me want to find it again

I remember seeing Wolfenstien running for the first time was pretty seminal. PCs seemed pretty lifeless until I saw that. Then there was another seminal moment when  I worked out with a friend how the psuedo-3d was done (full-screen 256 colour 3d animation in software on a 286?!)

-When my Computer Class Teacher in 3rd grade handed me the instructors book for "Coding in BASIC" and let me code without following the rest of the class
-When my mom took me to the local ISP to ask about getting internet because she was clueless (I was 11 at the time)
-When my alarm clock I wrote on my C64 woke me up.
-When my Command Sergeant Major asked me why I joined the Army instead of working in the IT field, then argued with my 1SGT to get me reassigned to Battalion ADP.
-When I installed my first Linux Distro (Ubuntu)
-When I was able to load a webpage from my webserver at home
-When I setup my wireless router at home and setup my laptops...with no effort at all.
-When my supervisor let me argue with a developer in another department...and I won. (On a $2.5 Million decision)