How Did You become A Techie??

[wheelman]

Hey, How did you become a Techie?? ???

[yogi_hm]

How Did You become A Techie??

By being grounded, Yep, got punished for doing some crazy stuff when I was young, while being stuck in the house started fooling around the pc and loved it. Even took it apart just to see the parts (Got more punishment) and that's how it all started.

[GodKid]

hmmmm.... pops..loved pc's so I had a tandy when they just came out.... lotus123 and test-drive were the hype... then it crashed.. and no-one could fix it.. :'(

time passed - high-school and uwi first year

then I needed an e-mail addres and was re-introduced to the pc.. of coursingly windows had been released by then... 2 foppy drives were no longer standard .. and me.. well I refound love... haven't turned back since ;D

[sandor]

round '95 i started off in what i thought was the fast track to a long career in banking. ended up discovering that i had an apptitude for microsoft access and powerpoint .. the bank seemed to think i had a tech apptitude as well .. ended up being a sys admin., til eventually my fiddling with web stuff on the side lead me to a full time career in the web field

[matronyx]

I was born a techi. ;D

I discovered this when I saw this white box (tv looking) in a store one day.

[Ropy]

I went abroad when I was between 5-8 give or take 2 years. I say my cousins with a PC and from I touched it was like love at first sight, and I've been hooked since.

[Xenocrates]

It started when St. George's College first introduced the computing program as an extra-curricular activity. Then black and green monochrome monitors were the lick (that's why I can truly identify with the colour of The Matrix). Thay had no hard drives, were on a bus network, had about 1 megabyte of memory and were about 16Mhz in clock speed. They didn't have 3½ floppy drives. Only 5¼ drives were supported. But Test Drive, Dig Dug, Zaxxon & Pac Man could run - that's all we needed. (aaah.... the good 'ol days ;D)

But it was there I got my first tech experience. I was only 13 then. But tinkering with GW-BASIC and getting it to do cool stuff like real-time EGA graphics, drop-down menus, coding mouse & printer drivers and writing what was definitely the first graphics API before DirectX ever existed or before Windows became popular.... those were the things that first got me interested in programming and subsequently, computer technology.

The rest is blissful history. :)

[Nastrodamus]

When I was Ten I saw my uncle use his pc and get a girl...need I say more?

[tech_guru]

From High school thru to College when I used to be the first one completing my Comp Sci assignments and helping others out.........I knew that was my calling........

[Collin]

Saw my first PC in high school and that was that .... spent many hours in the lab.... guess from there it has held my attention!!

[wheelman]

It all started a long time ago [11 years] in a house far far away [just down the road from where I live now]. My Pops use to bring home the computer from work to do....you guessed it, more work. He would ask me to carry in the computer....Anyway I brought the machine from the car and would hook it up for him every Friday night on the dining table and we would play 'Chuck Yeagers Air Combat' and 'Stunts' after pressing 'ctrl+c' while booting on a 66Mhz processor to get to DOS before Windows booted up on a very old Monochrome monitor. The PC had a turbo button that would make it go extra fast....woooop e. :P Many times I would cause the pc not to work http://www.veriotrainingfmyers.testgroup24.com/stuffy/banghead.gif and my Dad had to fork out the money to pay some technician guy to fix little window problems from DOS. I figured I should really stop playing games and learn this thing and after about the 100th or so time of breaking the thing I decided to do the same thing I did to anything that caught my interest...scrap it. After that day when I violated my first PC and saw a motherboard and video card and bigfoot hard drive the feeling was so good that I couldnt stop and now here I am a convicted (certified) PC violater.

[matronyx]

hmmm.... some you guys are really nuts http://www.veriotrainingfmyers.testgroup24.com/stuffy/odd.gif...

nahh... thats just the techiness shining through ::)

[wheelman]

Love the Icon Matronyx...http://www.veriotrainingfmyers.testgroup24.com/stuffy/odd.gif, where di you get it??

[Arch_Angel]

I just grew into it. Old man bought a pc (can't remember the stats) back in the early 80's. With 5 inch floppies and the darn screen that showed orange text in DOS. I only played DOS games when I came home from school. Then I moved up to playing 'Chuck Yeagers' (what a coincidence). Then in the early 90's when we got the internet, I found out about chat rooms and IRC, which led to chatting for hours each day (then to 4 years of chatting in IRC), then moved on to making my own website then getting my own domain, then into programming. etc.

Then eventually (not in the same timeline) I had the courage to open up my pc and look around after I started watching Call For Help on TechTV when it started in 98. (or was it 99)

Yeah it was late in my young years when I opened up a pc. But I only had the family pc to work with and I didn't want to mess it up. The rest is history.

[wheelman]

Sooo....so far only two guys played Chuck Yeager Air Combat and had the courage to open up their PC and see what was inside? ??? ??? hmmph

[jamrock]

I became a techie out of sheer frustration. I worked in two companies where the I.T. department wouldn't/couldn't give good support. I decided to learn how to fix the problems myself.

In the first company, my supervisor (a finance person with a techie's heart) sent me on a Lotus 123 course and taught me lots of neat stuff.

In the second, there was a big I.T. department so I hung out with the guys and just learnt stuff. Started helping others in my department when the I.T. guys wouldn't.

Went on a few Windows NT 4.0 courses and an A+ course. I have learnt lots of stuff from the internet and from colleagues.

[Skillachi]

First computer released upon was a macintosh, with one of those wierd one button mice, and keyboard, favourite game at that time was super muncher (if u havent been using mac since back in the days den dont question what it is) and also carmen sandiago. THt mac was using os/2 or something ollllllllld. I started to like computers after that. then my cousin released me on his 200 mhz computer with 16mb ram and some slowww crap, but was fast at the time, he was a techie so i started to appreciate pcs from him, then there was my brother, and then there was the time i got to scrap the 200 mhz computer.... its been all uphill from there

[owen]

well I'm not really a techie - I code. And at the very moment I realised that I could replace this;

if tree=4 then
return true
else
return false
end if

with this;

return (tree = 4 )

I had reached the point of no return :-\

[stan]

At my first job they had an old monochrome machine that we used to play digger on. It used floppies the size of a dinner plate and the speed was probably 10 mhz. I think there was an addictive substance on the keyboard, from the first day i touched it i get hooked. my friend at work used to make me do his work (on the computer) - i was so hooked that i did his job willingly. If I die right now i want my urn beside a computer or i want to be sent to the big computer room in the sky !!

[odsamuels]

Aww man.. just reading all these gets me all tingly remembering... yep... the Good Ol' days. My experience is a lot like Xenocrates and some of the other guys... oh boy I remember those old games, Stunts was da bomb, dig dug, Gapper, Prince of Persia and all kindsa stuff. I guess it started at first with my prep school one summer having a little certificate course thing and man... it just came natural to me... then a friend of mine had a Tandy 1000 (anyone remember Deskview? - Inspiration for Windows 3.1? Hmmmm). My dad had a Bus network with some "super fast" 16Mhz computers and Page orange monitors... push the Turbo button as I heard someone say and BAM! YUP! Good to go ;D .

I got my first computer really young cause I guess my dad say the aptitude in me... thing is he bought it from some guy in MoBay and you can imagine what that means for Tech support to me living in Portmore huh? After about the first 2 or 3 times of messing it up... and realizing the mental anguish that I have to endure until that MoBay man can make it out.. it dawned upon me... I need to learn to do this myself. I mean I've always been unscewing the radios and things of that nature... why shud this b any different? So I did... and to my surprise this time around I didn't end up with any "spare parts" after putting it back together!!!! I knew I had a winner.... after that it's been a lovely little cyber ride. Running a BBS, surfing the 'net from DOS, hacking dialups, hacking the UTECH computer network, writing programs, teaching, designing, brosing the web from DOS, the IRC underworld, SLIP, PPP, Telnet... ... <ehem>. My apologies... started to get a little carried away there... but y'all started it. Don't want to make anyone feel left out so I'll draw the line there.

I'll leave by saying tho... I remember PCJ meetings and when I met TechJamaica... I really felt it inside me that we are on the path to having some wonderful come right back round again... imagine an association of Techies from all walks of life? KEWL!

[pigeonflight]

slightly touched version :P
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Well I started counting in binary at 3 months old..... and was touch typing before I could walk. If it wasn't for the carpal tunnel syndrome at age 4 ....


abridged real version
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Got a commodore 64 (remember those?) round 1986. Learnt a little BASIC and played alot of test drive and epyx games (remember epyx?)

Eventually graduated to a PC. Finally in 1998 graduated to a Linux Box and haven't looked back since.

[wheelman]

Aww man.. just reading all these gets me all tingly remembering... yep... the Good Ol' days. My experience is a lot like Xenocrates and some of the other guys... oh boy I remember those old games, Stunts was da bomb, dig dug, Gapper, Prince of Persia and all kindsa stuff.


How about Load Runner?

[odsamuels]

Prolly Load Runner... remind me how'd that go, lemme tell you.

[Dea_mos]

well i dont know if i am a techie,
But those hours spent in the computer lab..not knowing that night has fallen..cooking up SBA..basic programs...word perfect...from the days we had to remember a set of key combinations totalling near to ten..

it all began in High school, we had to pass mathematics with 90% or more to get to sit at a computer (one of three) desperatly trying to beat typing tutor...

well as for cxc and sba and theory paper..man i failed not low though..i would pass now..given these standards.

i taught mi class at teachers college.. introduction to comps..i fell in love with PPatricia CClarke , because i realized i could get more music and make music with this complicated machine and so i began.
i loved basic..but never got further than pascal.... :'( now i am a fool at this forum......no c++ not even C- .... ;D

[deakie]

lol dea_mus...join di club man..... :D

[Dea_mos]

thanks man...i trying to..hard though... :(...

[jamrock]

But those hours spent in the computer lab..not knowing that night has fallen..

Face the harsh reality, man. Those are the signs of a true techie. Don't fight it... Give in to the feeling.

[ebony_chinee]

Went to College after not getting into Law school (thanks to UWI's crappy points system) couldn't think of anything else that I wanted to do that was as/or more challenging or exciting, so I took up Computer Science as a minor to a Behvioural Science Major.

Got straight A's in my computer courses, and became a College lab tech, then moved up to Jnr sys Admin, Sys Admin, and in my third year when I finished the Behav Sci degree I figured why not finish the IT degree?

From MS-DOS to WinXP & RH9, and making my own 10 BASE Ts to routered networks... I just had to be a techie!! ;D

[willy]

well lets see a friend of the family gave my brother a laptop for is birthday in 95 with games like duke nukem prince of persia and oregans trail being tha better gamer of the two i was on it most of the times.
eventually my knowledge grew and i soon realized that i had the ability to do what most people call resource hacking ....i only hav the subject in cxc i've never done any courses and have taught myself all that i know .

i'm also a member of zion and my friends refer to me as neo

[igodit]

Since the early age of 7, I think. Got some old magazie my Uncle left behind. Magazines like Bytes and a few others. Started looking at the hardware, computers, programinng code for games. Then I got a Tandy computer with a ROM chip. The unit hooked up to the TV as the display. By then I built a game in basic, something smilar to Minesweeper but not the graphical interface. Just selecting a number and avoid being caught.

Later on , got my second computer loaded with Windows 95. Was a charcoal color Acer, with 8MB of memory and a 1 GB HDD. Got internet sometime later, loan borrowed or steal I had to be online or on the local BBS. Hey you guys remember the two groups of hackers that was always at war LOD and MOD?

[Edge]

How do country bumpkins become techies.... Well go on a rollercoaster and realize that your dream of becoming a test pilot is pure poppycock! That's a good way to start. The rollercoaster wasn't even that big, you know the little one that used to be at Coconut Park... Yeah... Dat one! Momma bought me a Samsung XT to pacify me. Got hooked up with a breddrin of mine who had an Apple II gs and the rest is lacklustre history.

[Zephyr]

Growing up, I was the only girl being raised with 4 brothers & 2 male cousins, who at the time seemed like technical gods to me—(little did I know!) ::) To cut a long story short, if I didn’t try to at least share their enthusiasm for gadgets, chip boards and good ol’ commodore, I would have been a misfit & would have had to fly solo during playtime. So I had to chuck Barbie for the machines—the best move I ever made! Ever since then, I just developed an affinity for the mechanical & the electrical. When I went to university, I still wondered how green the grass was on the other side & I felt like I had to explore a little bit. So I did . . . but came right back to my first love--computers. Now I know my love is genuine. ;D


Still inlove,

[wheelman]

:'( :'(That was a touching story,I think I'm gonna cry. :'( :'(

j/k;D ;D

[Zephyr]

that's what they all say Dev . . .

lookout--it's gonna be a film someday ;)

[wheelman]

If you're the lead lady I'll watch it anyday ;)

[Breakspeare]

Techie? Mmm... I was maybe 6 or 7 and was amazed at this thing called a 'VCR'. So i decided i should pull it apart, and i did, then i attempted the TV, unfortunalely, i got caught and mi get some lik! :o :'(

I was amazed by anything electronic and i used to read or hear about computers but really hadn't used one till high school. There were some boys at school, and as with Zephyr, i thought they were tech gods!(all they could really do was open up windows explorer and find files i thought I lost :-[) so, i declared then and there that i had to know more, plus i refused to add fuel to their egos by asking them for help! 8)

[Techie88]

i got a comp 4 da 1st in 99( my own that is)and i usd to run into problems all the time and would call ppl. askin 4 information til they got tired of me after a while i got tired of callin dem n decided to strt figuring out ma problems on my own and got so interested dat i havent stopped luvin computers. now ppl. r callin me ( not that i dont do a little callin @times)

[Chris]

How I became a Techie is somewhat a long story, but I'll cut it short ... I idled sixth form (A-levels) and failed Maths and Economics and only got Accounts.

Short heh? Well actually that's what started by career shift. I originally set out to be an Accountant like my Dad and planned on doing Accounts at UWI. Needless to say that with only 1 A-level that was not possible. Anyway, I ended up doing Comp Sci at CAST (now UTech) and left that programme mid-stream to do more Comp Sci at UWI. The rest and everything in between is history, very interesting history which is too long to share here. Maybe when we have the TechJamaica.com (off-line/realtime) meeting ;)

All I can say is ... thank GOD I failed my A-levels ;D Oops, what did I just say? I hope I don't hear that from my kids when they grow up :P

[Xenocrates]

From MS-DOS to WinXP & RH9, and making my own 10 BASE Ts to routered networks... I just had to be a techie!! ;D




So I had to chuck Barbie for the machines—the best move I ever made! Ever since then, I just developed an affinity for the mechanical & the electrical. . . . Now I know my love is genuine. ;D


Still inlove,




...I was maybe 6 or 7 and was amazed at this thing called a 'VCR'. So i decided i should pull it apart, and i did, then i attempted the TV... so, i declared then and there that i had to know more, plus i refused to add fuel to their egos by asking them for help! 8)


These are perhaps the most touching lines I've read in a looong time. ;D

But perhaps the one that stood out most was Zephyr's chucking of the barbie... man, that one moved me in ways I can't verbally describe. :icon_cry:

Breakspeare, I love that part about 'not fuelling their egos' - that is a powerful statement unto itself :D - BUT WHAT WERE YOU THINKING PULLING UP A TV? ARE YOU NUTS?!?! If you were successful, we probably wouldn't be able to read your post today. ;D What? You wanted to know what it feels like to be moved by the 'Holy Spirit'? Go to a Poco church. It's a lot safer that way ;D

[CyVan]

It was around 1st form at Munro, looking for a career. At the time I was interested in everything, biology, math, physics, chemistry but didn't really know what I wanted to get into. At one point the plan was to join US Air Force cuz I loved to fly and eventually become an Aeronautical Engineer since I loved to design stuff.

Then one day my father brought home a PC XT 4.77 (10Mhz Turbo) with a CGA color monitor and 20MB Hard drive. I discovered DOS commands and GW-Basic and after that I was hooked. I started writing programs for every and anything. Computing was the one career which could concievably incorporate or be used in all the others I was interested in. I could fly flight simulators, design planes, create whole worlds etc... it was perfect :)

[Maximus]

It was a second love my first love was automotive technology then i went to the premier automotive school in the country jagas and became certified an automotive techinician but as soon as i graduated i got laid off and couldnt find another job and that was the end the auto industyr for me so it was on to my second love computers i did the a+ courses i just need to do the exams
and secondly i was tired of asking my bro for help he was to busy and somtimes to tired to answer me
he is my mentor im going to be better than him one day maybe i am now ;D

[Breakspeare]

Breakspeare, I love that part about 'not fuelling their egos' - that is a powerful statement unto itself :D - BUT WHAT WERE YOU THINKING PULLING UP A TV? ARE YOU NUTS?!?! If you were successful, we probably wouldn't be able to read your post today. ;D What? You wanted to know what it feels like to be moved by the 'Holy Spirit'? Go to a Poco church. It's a lot safer that way ;D


man...you crack me up ;D

[gravyflex]

I failed cxc maths so I could not get into UWI so I went to work and the first thing I purchased was a pc in 1999. I just got hooked on it the rest is history

[kc4u]

I wasn't the academic type. Did well in sports. Did get all seven O'Levels with 1s and 2s ( I really do beleive in God and his miracles as that was one of them) ;D

My mother wanted me to pursue some thing in business but i was darn reluctant, my dad saw this and said that maybe doing something practical may help to rejuvenate my desire for school. They enrolled me in 1993 to J.A.C.S (Jamaica Advanced Computer SYstem) a school in Montego Bay. I was introduced to pc repairs and maintenance, corel ventura DTP, FoxPro and basic did well but my love was the hardware part. 8) I got a diploma in Applied Computer Sciences in 1994.

Never looked back since!!! Thanks Mom & Dad ;) ;)

[The Main Menu]

I made 50 posts in the forums ;D

[Nastrodamus]

I made 50 posts in the forums ;D


Thats lovely Main Menu....

Keep it up.

[NEO_X]

Got the link from an administrator at work sent it to my email. thought its a kool idea joined up.
Besides I love technology

[NeGatiVe]

What really happened was everyone got tired of writing on paper and figuring out calculations in their head... hence everyone was forced to become a techie... (could be a government conspiracy)

[Nastrodamus]

What really happened was everyone got tired of writing on paper and figuring out calculations in their head... hence everyone was forced to become a techie... (could be a government conspiracy)


hhhmmm... I never thought of that.. maybe we are all in a matrix.....

[Jack Frost]

Windows 95...a little game called Wasteland, I remeber getting death threats from my cousin after using a knife to pick that little lock thingie that prevented u from turning on the PC just to play Dune....the Good old days 8)

[tredoggg]

It started when St. George's College first introduced the computing program as an extra-curricular activity. Then black and green monochrome monitors were the lick (that's why I can truly identify with the colour of The Matrix). Thay had no hard drives, were on a bus network, had about 1 megabyte of memory and were about 16Mhz in clock speed. They didn't have 3½ floppy drives. Only 5¼ drives were supported. But Test Drive, Dig Dug, Zaxxon & Pac Man could run - that's all we needed. (aaah.... the good 'ol days ;D)

But it was there I got my first tech experience. I was only 13 then. But tinkering with GW-BASIC and getting it to do cool stuff like real-time EGA graphics, drop-down menus, coding mouse & printer drivers and writing what was definitely the first graphics API before DirectX ever existed or before Windows became popular.... those were the things that first got me interested in programming and subsequently, computer technology.

The rest is blissful history. :)


Yow waddup i can agree with this as i was there too S.T.G.C 1992-1999 and i remember those screens i was trying to remember the nmame of that game the plane one zaxxon lol those were the days remember how we awed when the first colour monitor came (three colors ... right ) grandprix was the **** them times lol i can remember it was so cool ... Georgian for life

[griffjon]

Way back when my family got an IBM PC/jr, I started out playing games like King's Quest I... then in 3rd grade we had an Apple II in the school, and I learned how to make the screen fill with "Hello World" ...
I wasn't really hooked until high school, when we had some green-screen terminals that dialed into the local university's Internet connection. Ah, yes, I had a Bitnet email account back in '91 or so... Been online ever since with newsgroups, muds, email, etc.
I once hacked a telnet session through a gopher terminal when I couldn't get my email any other way ;)

I'm old skool, but not really.

[sandor]

xenocrates and tredoggg .. bigg up my fellow georgians on the board. i left sixth form in '92 but unfortunately it wasn't stgc that brought out my interest in computers. when i was in third form got our first little run in the computer lab, the teacher (i think his last name was wint) always flip up fi the least thing and walk out on our class .. stupidly we would be glad for the free period to just idle.

[kknight]

Was first introduced to the pc when my Aunt brought one home from the office to do some work. I was 16 or 17 then. When I got mine a few years later I eventually opened it to see what was inside. Once I started troubleshooting for a friend when he had pc problems I got hooked. Didn't become a full blown techie 'til I got a job as a Programmer. They saw that I had a knack for fixin' pcs and I did more fixing/troubleshooting and configuring than Programming. My Programming skills have suffered as a result though.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

I fell in love with computers/tech from early out. It all started the little Pac Man video game my uncle gave me. Then there was the Merlin hand held learning computer thingee - played tic-tac-toe, music and other stuff (looked like a big ole cellie ;D ).There was this show on TV named "Whiz Kids" where these bunch of kids would be hacking into systems and stuff (way back in the 80's). That show really got me excited about computers and wishing I had one. I'd be pining away looking in the Radio Shack catalogues at the Tandy's and Commodores. I was always tinkering with stuff - radios, telephones, etc.

I did a summer Intro to Computers course at NCR in Cross Roads where I learned GW Basic and discovered the wonderful world of Digger. In high school I did O Level computer studies in 4th form - Campion had this programme with a company named DataMac where they prepared us for the exam (wonder if that company is still around?). For the project I wrote a programme in BASIC to draw Velocity-time and distance-time graphs based on the Equations of Motion
(CXC Physics stuff). After high school I did a Comp.Sci degree ( got my first PC in 2nd semester of University) then started working as a sysadmin.

Looking back, there wasn't anything else I'd have been happy doing. 8)

[ramesh]

I was in Grade 4 when we read a story of a school youth who used his scientist father's computer to do his homework (and got caught by his classmates) somewhere in the seventies. JBC used to have two shows one German and one English called '01' and 'Living Tomorrow' (don't ask me which was English or the German, I was young then!) and one of them mentioned that we would soon be sending mail electronically (in the 70's!) I used to wonder if the envelope and stamp would materialise out of the other end of the wire, like in Star Trek!

Ever since then I broke open every busted radio, trying to make it work again, only making it worse...

I took up Comp. Science at Cornwall College evening classes and found a Commodore Vic 20 for JD$1100.00 (a lot of money them days 84-85 somewhere). Lawd, what a machine! 8k of memory,expandable to 20k (hence the name), tape drive and nuff games! I learnt Commodore Basic, Machine Language, (couldn't figure out CP/M) skipped the C-64 and bought a Commodore 128. Broke that and bought another with an external Floppy Drive. Epyx Games were great. I played Legacy of The Ancients, Gork, The Bard's Tale, all that good stuff. And Compute! Magazine. Anyone remebers 300 baud modems?

Nothing more till I 1996. Our company got its first PC. Had to learn the PC, not knowing anything much about DOS except what I picked up in Byte and zero about Windows (all of them thought I was the genius!). Figured out Lotus123 pretty quickly and figured out the rest from trial and error.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

...JBC used to have two shows one German and one English called '01' and 'Living Tomorrow' (don't ask me which was English or the German, I was young then!) and one of them mentioned that we would soon be sending mail electronically (in the 70's!) I used to wonder if the envelope and stamp would materialise out of the other end of the wire, like in Star Trek! ...


:D I remember those shows. 01 was the German one. 8)

[Greatis]

I was at cornwall college in ninth grade just being introduce to the 386 and 486 machines with windows 3.1. I started fooling around with those machines and became labtech in 10th grade after upgrading the machines for my 11th grade schoolmates to take their CXC exam.

[ramesh]

I was at cornwall college in ninth grade just being introduce to the 386 and 486 machines with windows 3.1. I started fooling around with those machines and became labtech in 10th grade after upgrading the machines for my 11th grade schoolmates to take their CXC exam.


How is the old alma mater doing these days? Funny I should ask, being my old school is just half a mile from where I work! :)

Sorry to hear Mr. DeBruin died. He was my favourite maths teacher. :'(

[Greatis]

The school isn't doing too badly, Mr. Taylor is leaving.
Mr. DeBruin was my favourite maths teacher too arguably the best in the island

[ramesh]

Mr DeBruin will definitely be missed. Under his teaching Cornwall won the LICA Maths competition many times (I was on the winning team once - Eddison Leighton got the best score, you can see his Maths articles occasionally in the Observer and he's the head of Maths Plus, a group dedicated to teaching Maths).

Mr DeBruin originally hailed from Sri Lanka and was teaching at Cornwall before anyone could remember. No one could write on the blackboard like he could! :)

Hail to Mr. DeBruin. Long live your legacy!

[Gillion]

I was in Grade 4 when we read a story of a school youth who used his scientist father's computer to do his homework (and got caught by his classmates) somewhere in the seventies. JBC used to have two shows one German and one English called '01' and 'Living Tomorrow' (don't ask me which was English or the German, I was young then!) and one of them mentioned that we would soon be sending mail electronically (in the 70's!) I used to wonder if the envelope and stamp would materialise out of the other end of the wire, like in Star Trek!

Ever since then I broke open every busted radio, trying to make it work again, only making it worse...

I took up Comp. Science at Cornwall College evening classes and found a Commodore Vic 20 for JD$1100.00 (a lot of money them days 84-85 somewhere). Lawd, what a machine! 8k of memory,expandable to 20k (hence the name), tape drive and nuff games! I learnt Commodore Basic, Machine Language, (couldn't figure out CP/M) skipped the C-64 and bought a Commodore 128. Broke that and bought another with an external Floppy Drive. Epyx Games were great. I played Legacy of The Ancients, Gork, The Bard's Tale, all that good stuff. And Compute! Magazine. Anyone remebers 300 baud modems?

Nothing more till I 1996. Our company got its first PC. Had to learn the PC, not knowing anything much about DOS except what I picked up in Byte and zero about Windows (all of them thought I was the genius!). Figured out Lotus123 pretty quickly and figured out the rest from trial and error.



01 is the german show... the other is the english....

I loved it :))

[death_knight]

i began the journey to become a techie when i was introduced to visual basic programming in my third form year of wolmers. i took my entire months money to buy a vb kit and couldn't afford lunch for the love of programming. it payed of know i'm writing raw c++ winapi programs, pretty good for a kid who wasn't in it from a young stage. the month of crappy lunches and not going anywhere was well woth that journey i started, with the purchase of that vb starter kit.

oh please tell me. how do i graduate from a newbie to a jr techie and so on.

[Arch_Angel]

oh please tell me. how do i graduate from a newbie to a jr techie and so on.
It depends on how useful and techy your posts are. ;D ;)

Just kidding. After you make a certain amount of posts, your title changes. And you get another star under your name.

[Kiwami]

Dare i say i was born with (literally had it since i knew myslef) a fujitsu.. (well at the time ICL ) XT 5mhz with 5 1/4 floppy (literally) drive, and a good 'ol trusty orange and black monochrome monitor. Doint foget my 256k *NOT MEGS of memory and 25 meg hard drive. I still have the hard drive actually.. I was drawn into programming with basic .. not Visual .. just BASIC! with ms-dos to run my wordstar and PGA Golf . Woah.. throwback memories today ;D

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Dare i say i was born with (literally had it since i knew myslef) a fujitsu.. (well at the time ICL ) XT 5mhz with 5 1/4 floppy (literally) drive, and a good 'ol trusty orange and black monochrome monitor. Doint foget my 256k *NOT MEGS of memory and 25 meg hard drive. I still have the hard drive actually.. I was drawn into programming with basic .. not Visual .. just BASIC! with ms-dos to run my wordstar and PGA Golf . Woah.. throwback memories today ;D


Bwoy... I envy all you techies born with gold memory chips in your mouths ;D

[Skillachi]

i began the journey to become a techie when i was introduced to visual basic programming in my third form year of wolmers. i took my entire months money to buy a vb kit and couldn't afford lunch for the love of programming. it payed of know i'm writing raw c++ winapi programs, pretty good for a kid who wasn't in it from a young stage. the month of crappy lunches and not going anywhere was well woth that journey i started, with the purchase of that vb starter kit.

oh please tell me. how do i graduate from a newbie to a jr techie and so on.


Bwoyyyy how quickly they forget my guidance and scotty lending you the vb6 book which u have not returned. Arite since u no want to mention me and how much u badminded me for my tech prowess at that time. BUN U!!!! ;D ;D
I raised u like my son. and now you have passed my level (jus becuz u can write c++). And i actually remember that third form-4th form wen u starved yourself but wouldnt tell anybody why....

[death_knight]

gweh nuh star ;D ;D ;D. you know me skill anything for some programming. and yeah big ups to skillachi because he is one of them that sorta was there for reference in my earlier stages of wanting to ge a programmer but he's expendible now cause i found tech ja ;D ;D ;D. joke, BIG UP TO SKILL ;D ;D.

[Skillachi]

And u know seh mi have another likkle son who jus start go wolmers in lower sixth form. Whom i am raising to become a techie, but u see since u a treat me so mi ago mek sure him cant do dat. Or jus stop teach him

[death_knight]

no still skillachi don't do that still, suppose that yute should be another bill gates in the making, don't stop educating the youngster and don't feel bad, the grasshoppers at times surpass their masters and at the rate at which i work it was only a matter of times before i passed your level still. "not bragging"

;D ;D ;D

[Gillion]

I will not tolerate Wolmerian infighting ;D ;D ;D ... this is heresy.
You are members of a 275 year lineage ;D ;D ;D

(can you tell I am having wacky fun with this ?)

--regards
An-Ancient-Maroone

[Xenocrates]

Dare i say i was born with (literally had it since i knew myslef) a fujitsu.. (well at the time ICL ) XT 5mhz with 5 1/4 floppy (literally) drive, and a good 'ol trusty orange and black monochrome monitor. Doint foget my 256k *NOT MEGS of memory and 25 meg hard drive. I still have the hard drive actually.. I was drawn into programming with basic .. not Visual .. just BASIC! with ms-dos to run my wordstar and PGA Golf . Woah.. throwback memories today ;D


Hey Gillion! We should resurrect that thread where we were talking about Nostalgia! Just so that Kiwami can see where we are coming from!

Kiwami - Gillion and I can relate. I remember way back when we had to write a BIOS for the computer before we could start running programs on it.... in GW-BASIC... :o :o

...straight!! ;) ;) I remember waay back in George's days, groups of those guys used to use GW-BASIC to reverse engineer viruses and re-release them into the wild. Some mad youths they were in those days... damn! But that's how all of us George's boys started as a programmers. Almost every truly adept programmer I know @ UTECH now is from George's. Man we were crazy (and wickedly skilled) ppl!

We have come a looooooooooooong way since then man! Throwback memories indeed Kiwami. ;)

[Skillachi]

I will not tolerate Wolmerian infighting :D :D :D ... this is heresy.
You are members of a 275 year lineage ;D

(can you tell I am having wacky fun with this ?)

--regards
An-Ancient-Maroone

Gillion is officially crazy...
*brilliance is never appreciated in its own time*

Is not really a wolmerian is a deportee that reach 6th form... him still have some green in him blood. When that wash out i will try a ting

[Xenocrates]

LMAO ;D

[Gillion]

Gillion is officially crazy...
*brilliance is never appreciated in its own time*

Is not really a wolmerian is a deportee that reach 6th form... him still have some green in him blood. When that wash out i will try a ting

You say an import ?

WHAT !!! WHAT KIND IF GREEEEEENNNNN ? :icon_evil

excelsior green ;D

or the OTHER green

Did you beat welcome him, in front of the oblisque of WWI heroes ? ?

ahh gone are the days....

--MAD HATTER Inc.
Gillion

[Malloc-X]

How did I become a techie? Thats a good question. It started in the early 90s when I ask my parents for a super nintendo and they got me a computer instead. A 486 dx2 80mhz 8mb of ram and a 500mb HD. When I got it I it was running windows 3.1. The only thing I new about computers at that time is to double click an icon to launch a program. Then I started playing alot of games. All of these games were made for DOS so I had to learn it. And after that I just got into it. I got my first pc at about age 8 and I became a techie.

[DBlock]

started making my little crystal radios,remember those,with the telephone recievers, thats after graduating from destroying all my moms radios as a kid ;D after then i had a tandy 1000 with a few 286s and an AT&T 386 with i also destroyed followed that up with burning the fuse on the utility pole and the burned out my room ;D ;D ;D finally i topped it off by damaging the office computer after which i realized that i had the bug, so i straightend up my act and started reading more about it. Now ppl tend to shy away from me but when they got tech probs they all come running, also some said that i need to be sent to the asylum because of the stuff that i speak about, the fun part is when i show them the proof or they see it on tv then they feel even more uncomfortable, non techies are the crazy ones not us. ;D

[Ropy]

started making my little crystal radios,remember those,with the telephone recievers, thats after graduating from destroying all my moms radios as a kid :D after then i had a tandy 1000 with a few 286s and an AT&T 386 with i also destroyed followed that up with burning the fuse on the utility pole and the burned out my room :D finally i topped it off by damaging the office computer after which i realized that i had the bug, so i straightend up my act and started reading more about it. Now ppl tend to shy away from me but when they got tech probs they all come running, also some said that i need to be sent to the asylum because of the stuff that i speak about, the fun part is when i show them the proof or they see it on tv then they feel even more uncomfortable, non techies are the crazy ones not us.:D


A professional recknition is what your are. :D

[AngelsKiss]

I think I was born with technology in my blood, since as a kid I would pull a part everything I could get my hands on (TV, radio, etc.) My mom will tell you that the only thing I did with dolls was to pull them a part, examine them and throw them away. Now am sure a shrink would have something to say about that. However the good thing is I never hurt any animals :-)

I use to also "fix" my friends' watches when I was in high school. I discovered computers around 1990 when I decided to take some computer course simply to encourage a friend. After that I applied for a tech job at the bank I was working at and became their first Sys Ad.

I have worked with IBM BaseBand (you younger folkes probably wouldnt know it) running IBM LAN Program, Novel Netware on both Token Ring and Ethernet, MS NT on Ethernet and have interfaced the banking system with the PC based systems.

[OSS]

i grew up around computers.my mother was a realestate personnel and she had to use a computer at home for records.
ithe first program i used was q-basic(i forget to use it though)
and i used it to make circles, mickey mouse and also cats.
one day i got curious and turned on the computer by myself and from that day i was better than my mom then my class, one of the best in my school.
now i am OSS the phenomenom ;D

[Greatis]

the phenomenom is right ::)

[OSS]

i will just take that as a compliment :P

[Nastrodamus]

How did I become a Techie? I never thought of that. It just grew on me I guess.

[Greatis]

How did I become a Techie? I never thought of that. It just grew on me I guess.
Just grew on you that's a nice way of looking at it. :D

[Greatis]

I think I was born with technology in my blood, since as a kid I would pull a part everything I could get my hands on (TV, radio, etc.) My mom will tell you that the only thing I did with dolls was to pull them a part, examine them and throw them away. Now am sure a shrink would have something to say about that. However the good thing is I never hurt any animals :-)

I use to also "fix" my friends' watches when I was in high school. I discovered computers around 1990 when I decided to take some computer course simply to encourage a friend. After that I applied for a tech job at the bank I was working at and became their first Sys Ad.

I have worked with IBM BaseBand (you younger folkes probably wouldnt know it) running IBM LAN Program, Novel Netware on both Token Ring and Ethernet, MS NT on Ethernet and have interfaced the banking system with the PC based systems.


A female pulling things apart damn you were born a techie. :D

You have some tight experiences also

[Boo]

well I just had interest in handwork (electrical stuff, carpentry, etc...). I used to build houses with boards and galvanise and run electric wires in them ;D

Then when my folks bought my first PC, I realise that I was getting into technology as well. Most of PC stuff I learnt on my own. Even my family surprised they ask me: "how u kno all this" ;D ;D

[Chris]

How did I become a Techie? I never thought of that. It just grew on me I guess.Yeah, it grew on most of us :) But I see where you're into certifications so it must have grown and stuck on heh? ;D

[artisan]

Bought my first PC back in 98....a Pentium 2 333Mhz.....pulled it up and rebulit it a month after purchase( took me di whole night!!!...but it eventually worked)...have not looked back since....

[megiddo]

i started off when i was about 5, learning to make simple circuits under the guidance of my grandfather. my dad is an architect so he always had a reasonably up to date computer running cad that i would play around with settings and things like that. the first os i used was norton command i think. in 99 i built my first computer. in 2000 i got my first machine, a pentium with 150 mhz clock i believe. by 2002 i was building and selling computers to my teachers at school. and it has continued ever since.

[pcchick]

I think I became a techie when I joined the US Amry and became an armor. It was so fascinating to break down weapons to its last piece, putting up communication antennas and fooling around with SINguards. Then I moved on from weapons to the pc, tearing apart my old Plackard Bell and adding different cards. It was like I was Christine Columbus discovering a new technique. And with the guys in my unit's help, I could better understand the pc, network and its operation.

But from the start I am always fixing stuff around the house. I like to tear stuff apart and put it back together...nice. :D

[zandex]

I was inspired by a friend who I thought was really good at what he did. I wanted to learn more about technology (IT), so I switched from electrical engineering to IT. Since then, its all about the passion and desire to see the next innovation.

[Ropy]

It was like I was Christine Columbus discovering a new technique.

lol, good one :D.

[death_knight]

i became a techie cause it was in my blood, it was my clans bloodline limit. techiesharingan :)

[digitalchef]

i became a techie cause it was in my blood, it was my clans bloodline limit. techiesharingan :)
LMAO, clown. :icon_mrgr

[death_knight]

careful chef... like you SERIOUSLY!!!!! Asking for it my yute!!!!

[samurailos]

Well hopefully i'll have the oppurtunity to be a techie eventually, techie was in ur blood death_knight, ok then

[Spoony]

I started as a techie in college 3 years back and i've loved this stuff ever since..

[samurailos]

Oh i though u all meant techie as in the title, my mistake, well then i liked comps since the time of dos when i was kid, i just messed around with old thing, till i eventually got into games then eventually got into roms and emulation, so i wanted a comp, for my school work, yeah right, for gaming, my father eventually bought one, still have it now,from then on i loved comps, i was gr8 in I.T at school too and with liking games i wanted to get softwares too. The after i graduated the say after i got my job, well i was a part of team, handing out flyers for promotion till eventually i was thought how to fix comps, well sum stuff, and every one else got fired or quitted, yeah lame *** pay, its all true, anyway i've been fixing comps for almost 2 yrs now and I'm only 17 and i buy upgrades for the teh comp at home now and then, and its cool can get boring but its all good, then came the net where i could rely on to get help when i couldn't fix sumthin and thats where i'm at now, hopefully, I'll be able to get a better payin job so prolly eventually i could team up with sumone and start a comp store. Yup, then i could build the ultimate gaming rig, soop up a turbo starlet and buy a house, find a decent juby and kick back.

I had it in my mind that i wanted to make games, or designs character for games, seeing as art is my scond skill, or my 1st. So i attempted, by using rpg maker 2000, i love rpgs so i wanted to make one, after reading heaps of tuts i attempted and lost interest in no time, later on i tried rpg maker 2k3 and lost interest again, so evntaully i tried rpg mkaer xp and well lost interest, so i reverted to rpg maker 2k3 read sum tuts again and actually made a intro to my rpg, it took days.

[ja_cellman]

well, i was always pulling down things and putting them back together. had a sanyo 18mhz computer wid 5 1/4 floppy drive and a green(monochrome monitor),i think symphony spreadsheet was onit and the only game was digger back in di 80's. started doing the whole BBS thing back in di day wid Collis,CSS,JOL...etc, when people had 9600 and 14.4 modems and whoever had a 28.8 was di boss.stepped up to a pentium 75 when windows 95 jus came out, and been on the net ever since, started login on through U.W.I and then eventually went to C&W. those where the days now i am just into whatever is new.

[str8jacket ent]

that was easy, between star wars and james bond, i just had to have tha latest gadgets

[g2cris]

I became interested in technology from i could understand that it existed,
before age 6. You know connecting 1.5v batteries to light bulbs just facinated me.
I doubt there is any household appliance that i didnt dismantle while still in primary school. O and i built an electric motor from scratch once (dont ask me how).

Guess computers were inevitable, an evolution.

[pogi_2nr]

I was born with a keyboard in my hand?

[ramesh]

I was born with a keyboard in my hand? Ahhhhh! Now that's a techie!

[marlonxp]

I would allways dismantle my toys trying to make somthing out of them. I just love tech

[Notorios]

Jah know star, i used to take apart evrything in my house, from i knew about screwdrivers, used to get my *** woop for it but dat never stop me, then i saw my dads old laptop at his office one day, and i started foolin around wid it, win 95, restart it in dos mode by accident, fool round like ediat fi a while i was 6 i never know crap, but i loved that blinking cursor was glued to computers ever since that.

[smash]

ha ha ha "I was born with a keyboard in my hand" lucky u bro!

[Arch_Angel]

ha ha ha "I was born with a keyboard in my hand" lucky u bro!
So how did you become a Techie smash?

[Moby Dick]

Sci fi movies. As I kid I was an avid Star Trek Next Generation watcher. Then there was McGyver, Mission Impossible. I just wanted to be able to do what those guys did. Since the secret service and demolisions are a tad dangerous I settle quite comfortably with computers. Anyone seen Italian Job?

[eediat]

by buck up an being faas - pull apart things cause i wanted to see how they worked, search through codes on web pages to see how they did certain things, etc....

not really a techie but getting there. :o

[king]

Became one by reading science fiction novels and helping family and friends with their electrical appliance problems.

[dwightja24]

watching zdtv >techtv not g4tv

[Electrotechnic]

Jus wanted a PC to play games. got mine and started messing with it.....pulling it down and putting ti back together. ever since the days of MS-DOS. Got a book, DOS for Dummies.....love how versatile DOS was and the fact that I could do any DOS command made me somewhat of a guru to my less technically inclined friends so I started fixing PCs and stuff....
Just getting the hang of it now still.....learning more and more applications of it day by day!

[BlaqMale]

MY story is similar to the above two, when i was about still in prep school i used to always want to know what's the inside of electrical eqipment looked like, so i used to pull down alot of component sets and vcrs. putting then back together again was a different story, used to have spare parts when i was done. in my closet i have 1 old tv with the twist nobs for channel changing, 4 vcrs, 3 component sets, an equalizer, dss receiver and a bunch of other things i pulled apart years ago.
Skip to 5 years ago and techtv was my best friends, teaching me the software side of computers, Pat and leo where supreme beings back then, when morgan was on the screensavers, anybody remember sumi das?
so that's how i got into tech plus the fact that i had an older brother that started a small tech business which i know run (into the ground).

[Krems]

in like 98 my parents decided to give me thier old 266mhz AMD k6 to fool around with....i did sooo much stuff wid that pc....it just wasnt powerful enough in the long run tho....so i sold it...then 2 years ago my peeps then bought me this cheap Hewlett Packard wid a celeron processor and ting...it was then that i started going into the pc and fooling around, jus doing little things like adding RAM.

then that summer at my job i learned even more from my coworker. i still kept on fooling around with pc's and researching stuff, then, the next summer at my job, i didnt have a pc at all, so for the first couple days, i carried my laptop to work when it occured to me that i had a junkyard of computer parts at my disposal.........thats when i built my system from junk parts...i was so proud of that thing star...and my boss and other coworkers were like "Wow...you mean you actually made sumn from this garbage?" :icon_mrgr
...and the system coulda move too, bun unreal on it an ting.

anyway, when summer finished and i wanted something more powerful to play my games on, i sold my motherboard, processor and memory and bought an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, a new motherboard and 512mb of ram wid the money, thats when i started learning about overclocking, and i managed to push it to 2.2ghz(3000+), i also ressurected an old IBM Aptiva and currently using it as a file server. i then started building systems for money.

now, im in my next stage....i sold the 2600+ and am currently waiting on the arrival of a 3200+ Athlon 64 :eusa_danc

[pogi_2nr]

Interesting journey,
apparently I became a techie when I made over 200posts on the techjamaica forums.

[leoandru]

me too.. I will soon be a senior one at that.

[Electrotechnic]

Oh my....u guys are hilarious. i wanna over-clock my Athlon XP 1700. so far i can only change the bus speed to make it either an Athlon or an Athlon Xp. What can i do? Techies.....help!

[Technoboy]

Well my story goes:

I started out as a humble lad in 1st form of High School. I knew about PCs existing but did not have one of my own. I was pretty anxious. My school (Wolmers) at the time, did not have a I.T. program in 1996.

In 2nd form, they introduced it. I was introduced to the PC for the first time (as in using it) in summer classes that year around 1997. It was exciting and looking back now I see how pathetic it was for them at the time to be giving us TYPING TUTOR almost every class!!

Finally, in 1999, I saw an ad in the paper for an affordable PC...a 366 Mhz Celeron from Computer Boutique. I begged my mother. She knew how much I wanted one and I had fished out a pretty good deal. She took me to the store the next morning! I got my PC with printer and scanner. This was the beginning of a new life for me, the techie life!

Reaching home, my father and I put the desk together and set up the system. This was happening in parallel to getting my first Internet access from C&W. This before they had a flatrate plan I believe (so yeah the bills were $$$$!). I was on it everyday, and browsing and learning. I pretty much taught myself most of what I know today as I took the initiative to get this knowledge. IT was the way forward. I became proficient in Windows (yeah yeah) and loved software of all kinds so downloading became a big thing. Yeah the viruses came but I do remember fishing out this virus I got from using IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (who remembers this). Way before MSN, Yahoo etc. I found that virus by searching with a common name in the registry! I rid myself of it!

I wasn't really much of the hardware guy, i.e. those who pulled the system apart. I was more able to use common sense and read to install software and attach external hardware devices, printer and so on.

It was only years after and yes the TechTV period that also helped me to get inside my PC. Soon after, I was changing my hard drive and my CD-ROM. I became hooked ever since 1999 and have now developed a great appreciation. I spend at least 6 hours a day online and more offline. I just love the PC, the whole technology and I am a huge cellphone technology fanatic too (see my signature!).

TECHNOLOGY has also given me an escape. It keeps me busy and I just love it!!!

[Technoboy]

What I need to do now, is get serious about making my own systems. I have a tutorial but I think I wanna go get certification and proper hands on experience so at least I could earn from it too...

[leoandru]

Oh my story is short.
My brother bought a programmble hp calculator when i was in high school 3rd form. He didn't want me to touch it so he gave me the calculator manual to read. The manual taught me how to program the calculator in basic. Eventually he let me touch the thing and i started writing code from that day until now. Programming has lead me to love technology and how its works in general.

[pogi_2nr]

this virus I got from using IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (who remembers this). Way before MSN, Yahoo etc.
I still use IRC, only lameos use MSN and yahoo.

[phatty_ja_gurl]

I became a techie due to the fact of my father. I am coming as far as the old Commodore 64s, etc. One of the best days inna mi life a when mi get di internet inna 1997!!!!! As far as messaging **** IRC and ICQ!!!!

[Technoboy]

I still use IRC, only lameos use MSN and yahoo.

I use them all. Have not used IRC or ICQ in a while though. My first experience was in order I think IRC, ICQ, Yahoo/MSN and all the other clones and Trillian!

But what do you use IRC for though? I usually used it to chat and get files but you don't find many Jamaicans there? ICQ is a bit I dunno...not many friends use this. Still have my account info though...maybe I'll try the new version one day again.

What IRC program ya'll use? I've tried a few of the fancy ones but my all time was mIRC.

[kev1_mc]

When i went 2 visit my cousin abroad for the first time for a month, and played F-15 eagle on his the MS-DOS computer, i instantly became interested in technology.
Then i got tech-tv on my cable. This made me a hardcore techie.

[phatty_ja_gurl]

Well I became a hardcore techie when mi get mi house pan a wirless network 2 years ago. Lawd that is when I had my linksys router. But me a bad girl now, mi step up. Mi bun down mi network, messed up my PC registery and get it back going again. Now dem mi did know she mi a wha techie!!!!!!!!!!!
Been around computers from the time mi realize that me know mi self :eusa_shif .
I live, beath a sleep about computers and technology. That is my passion!

[MechEng]

yes mi a dig up some threads in the newbies section... i see some good topics in this forum:p

well i dont think i am a techie u kno..... i just hustle cell phones and memory cards and rehreh. at times... so by default i became somewhat of a techie:)

[innocent17]

yu really a turn on yu NERD SWITCH. LOL

[grim386]

HEY!!!!, i didn't become a Techie, i was born one:eusa_ange

[RachieBabie]

in havnt gotten thr yet... but with techja help.. i will be thr soon...for now i content with junior techie

[AnthrAx]

years of dedication and boredom lol but i'm a pc techie trying to become a fone techie next :D me finish built my first pc so i feel i have accomplished techie status lol

[RachieBabie]

... i'm a pc techie trying to become a fone techie next :D ...lol

wit a likle help from....ahem!...... the innocent one i am sure

[AnthrAx]

wit a likle help from....ahem!...... the innocent one i am sure

yep yep that is correct ;) a not saying anything more lol

[innocent17]

in havnt gotten thr yet... but with techja help.. i will be thr soon...for now i content with junior techie

LOL, shi neva mean dat, she mean ow yu become fi love technology

[RachieBabie]

LOL, shi neva mean dat, she mean ow yu become fi love technology

an my answer remains the same... silly rabbit

i kno what she means. an is still cawz a techja.... my field is far from being heavily tech related... not directly for me at least....

so i reeli am just a junior techie, is more thn just a title here... i still learning nuff ( hmm.... nuh learn ntn bout dat flashing thing yet tho)

so like a sed... i not quite a techie, for now junior techie is satisfactory... altho ma boss from the other day tlakin bout mekin me do one course or another....

but i just getting a stronger appreciation of it...technology.. i never reeli saw the need to go beyond my everyday things like the pc etc.. i am just absorbing the info for now

[jamerican]

an my answer remains the same... silly rabbit

i kno what she means. an is still cawz a techja.... my field is far from being heavily tech related... not directly for me at least....

so i reeli am just a junior techie, is more thn just a title here... i still learning nuff ( hmm.... nuh learn ntn bout dat flashing thing yet tho)

so like a sed... i not quite a techie, for now junior techie is satisfactory... altho ma boss from the other day tlakin bout mekin me do one course or another....

but i just getting a stronger appreciation of it...technology.. i never reeli saw the need to go beyond my everyday things like the pc etc.. i am just absorbing the info for now
umm pre-school techie *cough*

[RachieBabie]

umm pre-school techie *cough*

AN PROUD...:eusa_danc

[jamerican]

AN PROUD...:eusa_danc
I know u are im just posting rubbish to get more post points 9 more till 1000

[AnthrAx]

I know u are im just posting rubbish to get more post points 9 more till 1000

disgraceful, look how long ago me join, and me not killing myself to reach hardcore techie status, tsk tsk

[RachieBabie]

....... im just posting rubbish to get more post points 9 more till 1000

SPAMMER ALERT.........SPAMMER ALERT.....SPAMMER ALERT

BEWARE the A_A might deal with your case


disgraceful, look how long ago me join, and me not killing myself to reach hardcore techie status, tsk tsk

LOL
maybe he (Jamerican) is reeli the one tht is the pre-school techie

[jamerican]

LOL
maybe he (Jamerican) is reeli the one tht is the pre-school techie
pssh u want me to mail my certificates to you?


disgraceful, look how long ago me join, and me not killing myself to reach hardcore techie status, tsk tsk
wha do you so hold you corner.

[AnthrAx]

LOL
maybe he (Jamerican) is reeli the one tht is the pre-school techie

:sold: CO-Signed

nuh feel no way jamerican lol, she is a girl and she has a beautiful eyeball....oh and eye-lashes

[jamerican]

:sold: CO-Signed

nuh feel no way jamerican lol, she is a girl and she has a beautiful eyeball....oh and eye-lashes
none taken at all.............................

[RachieBabie]

:sold: CO-Signed

nuh feel no way jamerican lol, she is a girl and she has a beautiful eyeball....oh and eye-lashes

DWL...

but just so you know.. both ma eyeballs are cute :) ... and all ma eyelashes

and why you encouraging him to spam di place?? where are the moderators??
A_A?...

[jamerican]

DWL...

but just so you know.. both ma eyeballs are cute :) ... and all ma eyelashes
yawn yawn yawn poor ting

[AnthrAx]

none taken at all.............................

i want dem find sum of ur old posts and delete dem, right as u reach hardcore techie lol


DWL...

but just so you know.. both ma eyeballs are cute :) ... and all ma eyelashes

and why you encouraging him to spam di place??

wow, supermodel eyes................no sah i aint encouraging him lol

[Bl@ze]

pc games.............. simple as that

the the famous words of mah cousin . as long as u nuh see smoke, everything will eventually work..... ( i said famous,... not proven to be true)

[jamerican]

i want dem find sum of ur old posts and delete dem, right as u reach hardcore techie lol





Badmind people dem lol lol ok i done spam now ok lol

[MechEng]

congrats Jamerican u are now a hardcore techie...lol

a wah unuh low mi fren JAMERI alone u kno, him a di real techie, mad stuff him capable of, mi all fraid a him to, cause next thing u kno, him...........full stop!


day by day i become more aware of tech related things,,, and i thank TECHJA for that:D

[jamerican]

congrats Jamerican u are now a hardcore techie...lol

a wah unuh low mi fren JAMERI alone u kno, him a di real techie, mad stuff him capable of, mi all fraid a him to, cause next thing u kno, him...........full stop!


day by day i become more aware of tech related things,,, and i thank TECHJA for that:D
No need to fear. Babylon come delete one of my post :thumbsdown:

[MechEng]

No need to fear. Babylon come delete one of my post :thumbsdown:

okok....... lol

anyways let's keep the thread going people, let us know how u come into the techie world:D

[AnthrAx]

Wait Deh!!!!! Is Senior Techie U Deh Mech Eng? And U Join 2 Years After Me?

AND YOU HAVE MORE POSTS THAN ME
7.8 posts a day

[jamerican]

Wait Deh!!!!! Is Senior Techie U Deh Mech Eng? And U Join 2 Years After Me?

AND YOU HAVE MORE POSTS THAN ME
7.8 posts a day
yup sad .....................

[MechEng]

Wait Deh!!!!! Is Senior Techie U Deh Mech Eng? And U Join 2 Years After Me?

AND YOU HAVE MORE POSTS THAN ME
7.8 posts a day


yup sad .....................

hhelllooooooo, weh unuh concern about that for...stop messing up di people dem thread!.........with unuh idle talk......cho man

stop now man....... yes mi no have no life.. and i am interested in topics here on techja because mi learn from them.......so lef mi...:icon_roll

okay back to the topic now...how did ya'll became a techie:D

[Arch_Angel]

No need to fear. Babylon come delete one of my post :thumbsdown:Actually, your posts were merged.
http://www.techjamaica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=283452&postcount=140

I was tempted to go through all your posts and find a few spam messages you posted or merge a few of your double posts, but this isn't the site for it. I need to remember to act professional here. :)

But please keep the thread on topic, before I start clicking on the delete button. :icon_twis

[recursion]

Newbie 0
Apprentice 50
Junior Techie 100
Techie 200
Senior Techie 500
Hardcore Techie 1000
Ultimate Techie 3000
-->Guru 5000

She gunning, prolly gonna make it there first.

Anyways to remain on topic,
Quest: How did I become a techie?
Ans: I was born.

[MechEng]

Newbie 0
Apprentice 50
Junior Techie 100
Techie 200
Senior Techie 500
Hardcore Techie 1000
Ultimate Techie 3000
-->Guru 5000

She gunning, prolly gonna make it there first.

Anyways to remain on topic,
Quest: How did I become a techie?
Ans: I was born.

no sah not at al...lol... no guru right here

anyways mr rec.. u a real show off bout u were born a techie:p ...u look nerdy fi tru:p

[jmart87]

Maybe one day I'll be an apprentice :eusa_pray

[brainz]

Bwoy. My first Encouter was @ age 12 with the Worst MS OS Windows ME. It had a alot of gliches, blue screen to kill. I was interested to find out what was wrong so that sort o influenced me. So Thanks to Microsoft. Every Disappointment is for a good.

[hassanvoyeau]

Became interested in computers in secondary school. I was a natural programmer and spent a lot of time in the lab working on my O'Level and A'Level projects. Was one of the few persons to get a perfect score on my GCE O'Level SBA.

[mjj4363]

Started in 1998 when I was 6 or 7, the school had a computer class (everyone was required to take it) at first I really didn't like it but after the first few months I got better and better at it, in late 1998 we got a Compaq with a 8 or 9 gig drive, I fooled around with it (basic things) and around 2000 when I was 9 we got a new PC, I opened the old Compaq (boy I can still remember that leather belt...ouch) but after a few weeks I had taken it apart and put it back together. in 2003 I got my first note book and within 24 hours of owning it I had managed to take apart and reassemble a $1,400 notebook :)

I have continued to excel in computers and networking, currently experimenting with a web sever (cheap one) and also some other network equipment.

I guess it runs in the family, my uncle works designing Dongle Replacements and Emulators for the U.S. government so maybe it's in my blood

[fire21]

Ok here's mine - Once upon a time... cho:p
Well when I was young I used to pull up everything, mostly radios(my mother used to quarrel nuff:eusa_ange), an put em back together. I remember after a flood my friends discovered a gameboy in the river and brought it to me. It was drench in mud an water - I opened it, cleaned it out and fix it up an viola it worked and I kept it. I used to make box trucks that had lights(used the christmas lights an battery), and took the remotes an stuff from remote cars and transfer the box truck into a moving thing....etc etc
But the defining moment with pcs came when I went to high school in 1st form. I spent every evening for 1month in the lab getting to know bout em computers. I got good that people start asking me for help and I would help them.(it was an an girl school so a whole heap a question the girl em ask mi). So I've developed a love for the computer world, thats why I'm doing IT in college. I'm still in the learning process so everyday I try to learn something new. nod

[duster]

I was forced to do computer programming in High School by my Counsellor. Was good at programming in Basic then but i couldn't get C, c++ thing; too hard i did the basics just to get the degree.So i switched to computer networking after i graduated from college. love being hands on... cant tek the one bag a code! I think too rational coding requires a different kinda of thinking:--- my programing friend you to say - dont question "why" the code works just believe it does.

[Cultus]

I was born a Techie.... been fixin radios and anything electronic around the typical household from I was a little kid, till I got my first PC. I was gonna pursue a Degree in Electronics but after getting my first computer, It was all about Tech from that day till now....and that will never change....I am just a true Tech Geek. Tech is just my obsession.

[after_dark]

when i was a little boy trying to figure how the hell the radio could talk !!!! u should have seen my amazement when i saw a black n white tv let alone colour TV!!!!

[kilaj1]

I became a techie back in teh days when you have monocrome monitors, thats 2-3 colors for you young people, mine had orange, purple, some kinda blue tiel, and of cource black and white.

When i upgraded my graphics card to a SVGA (thats 256 colors) this stupid tech con me and my peeps saying we would have to get a SVGA monitor also, this was a week or two after we got the card and my games still looked like crap. This was back in the days when a 14"-15" monitor cost almost 20 grand. also the same stupid tech charge 5 grand to clean the mouse:icon_eek: iwas about 12-13 yrs old then. from that point i said to my self no other tech go ever touch my gear. and thats now its bin since.

self tought myself till i was 16, was teaching SBAs in highschool casue the teachers never understand it (was the hardest Info tech SBA CXC ever put out) I got 99% on that SBA, and a distingsion in infotech.

[Kev4eva]

Born a technie powered by Advanced Micro devices

[Sheka]

Started when I applied for college and didn't know what i wanted to do so I decided to choose the programme with the fanciest name on the brochure 'Associate Degree in Management Information Systems'. Was lost for the first couple of months until everything started falling in place and I became the best female programmer in the class. All the other girls used their looks to get the guys to write their programmes instead of their brains, but I used the latter.

[Ty_Bomb]

From high school i got the award for most outstanding In Information Technology

[duster]

. All the other girls used their looks to get the guys to write their programmes instead of their brains, but I used the latter.


Hey i think when your man does something nice for you , you should put him in a infinate loop!:icon_lol: what do you think?

[nevintech]

as for me, i usually pull up electronics and put them back together again, :), but the pc part was born in the year 2000, my mom bought a hp 850c pc 670mhz, 64mb system ram and 4mb video, this machine was a test from the start till its end,

[brinx38]

getting ma 1st computer at about age 12 and "fixing" it before turning it on turning it on.
- a tell you bout the ppl dat fix things that ain't broke. lol

http://www.techjamaica.com/forums/showthread.php?p=352604#post352604
- and that's how I became a techie

[Bl@ze]

video games - simple as that

[biggskelly]

became a techie, because my first system crashed regularly and needed repair, i had to learn to fix it rather than pay someone

[BABINSON]

from i was about 10 i kept pulling apart any electronic device that i could get my hands on and thats how it all started.

[dr.zeeks]

cell phones. :P drag me into the technology world

[slickrik]

Inborn ting always taking apart and putting back together.....just to see how it works......destroyed a couple a things along the way tho....

[nuhsenutten]

after i got my pc 2002 then it crshed and someone tried to charge me 5 grand to fix it.....high school lunch money nuh tall dem way deh

[malco1987]

I Became a techie when i got my first laptop i started to experiment with it, then i started to upgrade hardware and software. I liked it so much i decided to go to school for it

And i have been building, repairing, some destroying and upgrading since then

[Yung_Hero]

well my parents got a pc wen i was about 12, and stuff went wrong with it, and to their amazement after a half hour of tinkering in the pc the likkle 12 y.o. fixed the problems as they came along... and then it was like second nature to me ^_^. i'm not really a "Techie" still... i only have a I.T. at CXC level lol. thats it. I just see myself as an inquisitive reader that follows the directions in tutorials to build pcs cuz i can't afford a PS3, XBOX 360 and Wii lol. Fire pon console!!!! lol

[papa_d]

At age 10 - 12 i saw a computer at my dad's work place and someone was using it so i went over and it was basically love at first sight.

And when i first got one for myself whenever there were software probs i could almost always fix them to everyone's amazement, so i kinda found out that it was my place in life but i tell u need to be rich is pushing me in another direction.

[BUBBA]

wen i started pirating software yeah i can remember wen evrybody wanted a copy of Norton eheh lol

[Daveyon]

I remember my first computer. Its was 350Mhz processor DAMNNNNNNNNNN LOL. Loaded with windows 97, YEAH 97!!!! Who had that??????

[KoyoteGambit]

My first system was black and orange screen, that used a cassette tape and large floopy disk i think it was 5 1/4 drive for backup. The OS was DOS or Basic, everything was command driven, that was around 1986 1987. If we had a similar task to do ofter we'd write a batch file for it. Its so long ago I can't remember it all.

[BUBBA]

My first system was black and orange screen, that used a cassette tape and large floopy disk i think it was 5 1/4 drive for backup. The OS was DOS or Basic, everything was command driven, that was around 1986 1987. If we had a similar task to do ofter we'd write a batch file for it. Its so long ago I can't remember it all.

rahtid!!! dat mean u ancient man

[kev007_2002]

DWL!!! Bubba, u nuh haffi bus di man secret suh. lol

n e wayz. how i became a techie....................got ma first 486 processor machine back in the early '90's, bout '91 or so. had windows 98 an beer tings ^_^.
den one day i tek fass and open teh case..................the rest, is history :D

[juba]

DWL!!! Bubba, u nuh haffi bus di man secret suh. lol

n e wayz. how i became a techie....................got ma first 486 processor machine back in the early '90's, bout '91 or so. had windows 98 an beer tings ^_^.
den one day i tek fass and open teh case..................the rest, is history :D

You had Windows 98 back in 91?

[KoyoteGambit]

You had Windows 98 back in 91?
He must have meant windows 3.1

rahtid!!! dat mean u ancient man
I'm hip, i still love hot djs like Shabba, Lt. Stichie and Yellowman and rapppers like MC Hammer. :D
Take a look at the Jamaica Computer Society post (http://www.techjamaica.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5418) and you'll get an understanding of how far back I'm from. After my initial post I tried to remember some things we did then. Anyone remember Prodigy, it was the first time I went online in Jamaica had to dial up to the ISP in New York. Cost my mother $16000. I remember cause my *** still sore form the beatings way back then, took her three months to pay it off. woooooo memories.

[Chucky_B]

OMG! Some really OLD technies in yah man. I only came on the chart around Windows ME in year 1999. in the quest to become a technie i burned 2 brand new AMD CPUs lick one 20 GB and a 60 GB which was HUGE back then all that happened cause I learned hands, on trial and error. The first time and i opened the computer i never knew what RAM, CPU, M-bored was if i had opened it and saw a little man walking up and down in there i would think its normal. you done know error on a CPU mean plugging off the fan to make it stop the noise, "7k each" the second one was a mistake though! lol. but as i got older met with some real pros also the internet came into play and here I am.:eusa_clap

[Ruttus]

Well it was back in 1994 i got ma 1st pc with windows 3.1. madest to me back then, jus loved it as a touch it and i use to try all sorts a crap even crash the pc, but ma pops had a fren who fix them and mi use to watch him and learn then about 1998 or 99 i got dial up, and that was the end of it, been hooked ever since.

[Trojan]

i became a techie by making a 100 posts lol

[dwaynebrown85]

well my first experience at computers was wen i used to go to my mom's office after school and just meddle with this weird looking machine. then someone introduced me to this car game that was on it...i cant remember the name of that game but it was black and white and had a lamborghini and porsche. but from that i just loved computers and i dnt regret it one bit.

i would love if someone could remind me of the name of that game...anyone here know it?

[BlackCryptoKnight]

well my first experience at computers was wen i used to go to my mom's office after school and just meddle with this weird looking machine. then someone introduced me to this car game that was on it...i cant remember the name of that game but it was black and white and had a lamborghini and porsche. but from that i just loved computers and i dnt regret it one bit.

i would love if someone could remind me of the name of that game...anyone here know it?

Could it have been Test Drive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Drive_(video_game))?

[Danestar]

i wasn't given a choice by mom after finishing High School go learn something and stop wasting your life, which she already had plan and paid for. guess it was my destiny..........

[Bl@ze]

go learn something and stop wasting your life,


too late. well she warned u

[hv_thugg]

i became a techie by making a 100 posts lol

jah know what when you reach a $1000 we afi go lock down this place lol.


Could it have been Test Drive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Drive_(video_game))?

i think it was rad racer check out rad racer and see if it was that one Rad racer 1 & 2 was the boss back in the days and the cars she mention hmm.

[Cylon Knight]

Back in the early 90's after several years of Electronics in the field I decided to impart my knowledge in the classroom at a Technology School.

At that time, the curriculum later shifted towards computer technology and IT certifications, so I had to get my ducks in a row, hit a few certs and then jumped back into industry, first as a systems administrator, then systems analyst.

The rest is history..

[duster]

I remember my first computer. Its was 350Mhz processor DAMNNNNNNNNNN LOL. Loaded with windows 97, YEAH 97!!!! Who had that??????

windows 97 what the hell is that.. i only know of 3.11,95a,b,98,98se. what you talking about 97/

[Kev4eva]

windows 97 what the hell is that.. i only know of 3.11,95a,b,98,98se. what you talking about 97/

mus be one a those clones that were in circulation or something similar

[ramesh]

windows 97 what the hell is that.. i only know of 3.11,95a,b,98,98se. what you talking about 97/ Perhaps this will help:
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/16633/windows-97-in-beta.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/windows-97?cat=technology

[Kev4eva]

wow never knew about an actual windows 97...........thanks ramesh

[FearLess]

Not yet a Techie, but since all the smart ppl are here I guess I 'm well on my way

[duster]

Not yet a Techie, but since all the smart ppl are here I guess I 'm well on my way

not a techie yet?? what are you waiting on? come on you must be born again!:D

[Stem]

Well it was back from the days of Windows 3.1 at my old high school (CC). Can remeber my first pc had a 365MB hard drive and 8megs of memory. Just enough to run win95. Never looked back since.

[MG Kelly]

Grade 10 high school had to choose an option between OP and IT so what you think....definately IT plus the world is heading all computers needed something that could possibly keep me employed. Start using it...never owned one though. I loved designing but ended up doing mostly programming at College. Then started to work 1 or 2 years after college and did more networking and repairs than programming LOL

[BUBBA]

removing porn viruses and alot of things dat pple do on the net and cant get rid of em off my neighbours computers at an early age. soon started repairing em learnt from a policeman neighbour i had, he left to work abroad thats wen i took over the place

[thuggest_1]

At age 10 when playin games on my friends pc, then i got my own at age 12 and crashed my mom hard drive 3times...been modifying them ever since and built my dream system in 05 ($2400 US). B/c i luved it so much i've dedicated my life 2 it and i'm doin a degree in Computer Science as we speak

[dwightja24]

well when i got my 486 pc with windows 95 and a monochrome screen speaker in tower and started going on telnet sites
in 1996 thats when i fell in love with computers all sit down 24 hours a play doom or some strategy game like Dune

[hv_thugg]

well when i got my 486 pc with windows 95 and a monochrome screen speaker in tower and started going on telnet sites
in 1996 thats when i fell in love with computers all sit down 24 hours a play doom or some strategy game like Dune

nice to see you really posting sir.

[bearpound]

first time i started, age 15 my first time to New York City, my family had a compaq that was just the screen alone with everything in the screen & i sat on that computer everyday cause they had it & didn't know how to use it so a teach myself. I came back to Jamaica where i started IT 10th grade, & i was mad in it cause at that time computers were like car price them time & if you had one at home, you were the * so a felt big cause i have gained alot of software knowledge. By 2000 my mother bought one with windows 98 for $70,000, with 8x cd burner, 20GB HD, 128MB Ram & it crashed 2 weeks later. I friend of mine who teach at Heart charge me 10,000 to format it & i sat & watch him the whole time, typing in dos doing a whole lot a thing for me not to understand but i pick long time, i had to because it came out of my savings cause my mother decide she not paying for it & i know it was gonna crashed again. I could do it until i decided to do hardware repairs and started with my first NLX system before ATX etc techs you know what i'm talking bout. , think it was a dell dont remember, from that i have been hardcore in the computer thing.

[Bl@ze]

I friend of mine who teach at Heart charge me 10,000 to format it

and u actually use the word friend ?

[BUBBA]

By 2000 my mother bought one with windows 98 for $70,000, with 8x cd burner, 20GB HD, 128MB Ram & it crashed 2 weeks later. I friend of mine who teach at Heart charge me 10,000 to format it & i sat & watch him the whole time, typing in dos doing a whole lot a thing for me not to understand but i pick long time,

wtf?.... all dat money wasted u sure dat was ur frend 10gran :eusa_wall

[epyon_jm]

When I was Ten I saw my uncle use his pc and get a girl...need I say more?

dat's some encouragement

a friend of mine showed me all..or almost all that he knew and i just took it from there.

[jestro]

well back in 2001 when i just went to university i had the privilege to see a good friend of mine single handedly write a program in C++ and hack in the computer lab's firewall in 20mins without being noticed- he basically taught me everything that i know 2day about computers inside out, even though it is not my specialty :D

[Spare]

It started out simple I had my computer and I started learning as much as I can. And I just built up and learned as much as I could. I just took advantage of every chance I got to learn about the computer. anything that happened with my computer I learned from the mistakes I made that lead up to my knowledge of computers. And let me tell you one thing it wasn't easy. But it's rewarding once you learn how to do things. Easily.

[flextour]

did want learn bout networkin and phones specs... then i heard a this site for jamaicans...TADDAA!

[Griffo]

From the moment I watched movies like TRON...Johnny Pneumonic and the Lawnmowver Man I was hooked,,,, hence when I was in high school (Titchfield that is) Info Tech was first choice for.....I just love being a Techoid..cuz we are not ur average mortals }[-_-]{

[GeorgePong]

my mom sent me to do IT at exed...

[Gnostic]

growing up, I've always had an interest in electronics and how stuff work, but my interest in computers was solidified when my sister brought home her 486 while on break from University. I remembered being fascinated with all aspects of it. Software. Hardware. It was cool experiencing and learning something new everytime I turned on that machine. I don't get that 'excitement' anymore when It comes to computers. But I'm without a doubt still learning new stuff everyday. And now,I get decently paid to do stuff that comes second nature to me. I do what I enjoy and enjoy what I do.:eusa_booh

[Spens]

jah from as a baby maw pull apart stuff an instantly knowin how to put it back together i instantly knew i was a techie wen ma super nes controller stopped workin an i pulled it apart an removed the crumbs :P outta it an set it back in the exact order. (i was like 5 or 6 usin a kitchen knife instead of a screwdriver)

[Jack Frost]

I remember once using a knife to pull tha security lock on ma cuz's computer so I could play Wasteland...


But I don't think I 'became' a techie, its more of a birth right, I was just born to be TECH

[Fireman]

pulling things apart and fixing it for me i find fun in it i have been pulling up things from as far ias i can remember......when it come to things like computer i like to read, follow instruction and ask question on how i can get in stuff or to take out stuff install software etc.......


first time i started, age 15 my first time to New York City, my family had a compaq that was just the screen alone with everything in the screen & i sat on that computer everyday cause they had it & didn't know how to use it so a teach myself.

clipped for brevity


mi a tell you 10k in those days was a whole lot of money lol

[khat17]

LIFE STORY

I was young. Fell in love with an Apple Mac. Would go by after school to my mom's friend's office and play on that Mac for as long as it took for my mom to be ready. Then I kept on bugging for my own PC. Back when SINGER had their 486-DX2 machines going is when I got my first PC. 50MHZ - 4MB RAM - running Windows 3.1.

After time went by and I picked up a virus from sharing stuff, and the machine started to behave funny. Poor me didn't know what it was happening. This was while I was going school to learn PC's and it was embarrassing that my parents had to call a technician to fix the machine. They called a guy - I will never forget him or his name - and he fixed the machine. Upgraded me to 8MB of memory as well for a reasonable price. I watched I learned.

Few weeks later the machine acting up and I can't fix it. He comes back and it works fine. This repeats for a while till my parents decide to take it to my school to have it looked at - I was doing classes at a computer school. When it was checked out and the name of the technician who looked at it was given they all laughed. He was known - by them - to place viruses on customer PC's in order to be called back.

After that point I swore that I would learn and prevent this kind of treachery to anyone else I came across, and here I am today. My name or work has always preceded me - and now - I'm working as a technician for IBM. My only regret is that now that I'm working for a larger company than any other I've ever been in it's harder to get time to study and go back to school. So I don't have all the certifications I'd like.

As a result of my background I'm a bit adamant and vehement about certain topics in PC's, but I've learned to calm down when it comes to things that involve personal preference - like the AMD/INTEL issue and the ATI/nVidia issue.

[samurailos]

I friend of mine who teach at Heart charge me 10,000 to format it & i sat & watch him the whole time

WOW 10K to format What in blazes, ur "fren" mus rate u lol

[Spens]

LIFE STORY

I was young. Fell in love with an Apple Mac. Would go by after school to my mom's friend's office and play on that Mac for as long as it took for my mom to be ready. Then I kept on bugging for my own PC. Back when SINGER had their 486-DX2 machines going is when I got my first PC. 50MHZ - 4MB RAM - running Windows 3.1.

After time went by and I picked up a virus from sharing stuff, and the machine started to behave funny. Poor me didn't know what it was happening. This was while I was going school to learn PC's and it was embarrassing that my parents had to call a technician to fix the machine. They called a guy - I will never forget him or his name - and he fixed the machine. Upgraded me to 8MB of memory as well for a reasonable price. I watched I learned.

Few weeks later the machine acting up and I can't fix it. He comes back and it works fine. This repeats for a while till my parents decide to take it to my school to have it looked at - I was doing classes at a computer school. When it was checked out and the name of the technician who looked at it was given they all laughed. He was known - by them - to place viruses on customer PC's in order to be called back.

After that point I swore that I would learn and prevent this kind of treachery to anyone else I came across, and here I am today. My name or work has always preceded me - and now - I'm working as a technician for IBM. My only regret is that now that I'm working for a larger company than any other I've ever been in it's harder to get time to study and go back to school. So I don't have all the certifications I'd like.

As a result of my background I'm a bit adamant and vehement about certain topics in PC's, but I've learned to calm down when it comes to things that involve personal preference - like the AMD/INTEL issue and the ATI/nVidia issue.
ja know sad story yo :eusa_booh

[HellScream]

for me it was just a natural progression of things...it started in 3rd form in high school when they upgraded our computer lab. That was my new hangout spot...started writing simple programs in q basics, then started making video games with friends initially with q basics....it just progressed naturally...i got derailed though because after doing IT in cxc's i wanted to do it in 6 th form but that was dashed when our a' levels it teacher got ill and they couldn't replace her fast enough....by the time they did we lost too much time so it was scrapped for that year...bummer...then i just focused on other things...now im in finance professionally (boring)...but i will return to my first love

[Redline]

Hey, How did you become a Techie?? ???

Just focus your life around PC's..im not a techie but have nuff friendz who became 1...anyting mi need in pc mi link dem..they pay attention in IT class an all sorts a tingz...but as i seh..just keep PC's ur best friend yuzimi..

[cmac125]

You just have to do what you love, once you get into tech stuff it get addictive. You spend hours on the internet and get the joy of resolving issues from forums and all. I started out working for Courts and ended up working as the IT Project Manager for Superclubs.

Typical day in the life:

Get in 8:30AM get coffee and breakfast at the resort I am working..
9:00AM check the server room to make sure that all backups were completed successfully. Check the logs and all, then check email to see if anything pressing is there that needs to be completed. Once that is completed just get to meetings and plan strategy for different projects moving forward. When you do what you love eventually you stop watching the clock and focus on becoming the best at what you do. All the promotions and pay raises will come once you stand out in what you do and handle things in a professional manner.

[jamjosef]

hmmm i met a computer, turned it on used it and we've been together ever since we going strong for 12 years now LOL

[Redline]

hmmm i met a computer, turned it on used it and we've been together ever since we going strong for 12 years now LOL

LOOOOLL!!!!!....lets hope u 2 make a strong commitment to each other..:icon_lol::icon_lol:

[L4nd0]

I messed up my fone then tried to fix it back
and it works
so I was "married" to technology from then

[stefanplaya]

how do u become a techie???

[danthony]

how do u become a techie???

we're not talking about the Title u get on the Forum, we're talking about ur how u acquired u tech skills, if u have any!

[hv_thugg]

hmmm i met a computer, turned it on used it and we've been together ever since we going strong for 12 years now LOL

hope yall have a long life and have nice laptops.

[khat17]

He's probably advanced enough to give birth to one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biBHJvGx3s8

[Redline]

He's probably advanced enough to give birth to one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biBHJvGx3s8

LOOOOLL!!!!!!!!
yah jokah yuh nuh...foolishness dat....
:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol: :icon_lol:

[dresimple]

Not there yet hoping to become one soon

[hv_thugg]

Not there yet hoping to become one soon

lol how will it benifit you? Go towards ur goal still.

[Skeng]

CD Burning .... sending mp3s thru hyperterminal ..... thats where it all started

[jamjosef]

He's probably advanced enough to give birth to one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biBHJvGx3s8

lol pure idleness i love messing round pc though i thinks its an addiction

[Mr.telephoneman]

forced to evolve. new tech stuff everyday.

[dark_kammealeon]

i acquired mine by messing stuff up like accidentally formatting my brothers hard drive and there was a time i was banned from going online because the phone bill used to run up so one summer while my family was abroad i was under no supervision i went online line the PC caught lsasser worm i tried everything to get rid of it but that help me developed my research skills through the power of google i rid my self of it before my brother came back from and would kick my @$$ lol

[Gladiator]

reading too much of those old computer shopper magazines. anyone around 30 should remember those montrosities.

[Caprice]

I am not really a techie but eventually. I teach business therefore technology must be involved in some way or the other.

[Skele Drew]

Matrix. Watched the movie in 2nd form and Neo instantly became my role model (still is). Led me to research hacking (black, white and grey hat), programming, etc. and causing me to became something of a software freak. Have recently started going into hardware and a little networking. Still working towards becoming a hacker in all senses of the word. :eusa_whis

Its just the knowledge, :eusa_wall and challenge. :eusa_clap

[Mr.telephoneman]

If yuh working towards becoming a hacker, meck sure yih hude up yuh get ketch money inna di foul coop round a back.Babylon don't check fi dem kinda people dem.

[hovastan]

i just love technology so anyting that has to do wit tech has my attention

[Skele Drew]

If yuh working towards becoming a hacker, meck sure yih hude up yuh get ketch money inna di foul coop round a back.Babylon don't check fi dem kinda people dem.

As I said, its for the knowledge and challenge. Its fun learning bout the black hat side, but there's no purpose to actually doing something that could hurt someone in any way. But alas the meaning of the term hacker has been redefined and dragged through the mud :thumbsdown:. Its a fairly common thing to not make a distinction between hackers and crackers (CRiminal hACKERS). Its kinda like how we call every bad program "virus" when there are different types of malware classified by behavior (trojans, logic bombs, worms, etc.). Check http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html for the original meaning and a great kickoff point :eusa_clap. Actually, I love to just help people with their tech issues. Gives a great kick when you solve a real difficult problem :eusa_danc, almost as much as programming does :sold:.

[xclusief]

I got my first computer from my uncle. A second hand pile of junk really, used to give bere problems. Had to learn how to fix any issues I came across and not long after, I had to learn about changing out parts etc. After the first "major" upgrade (i changed the video card), and seeing what a difference it made, I was hooked.

[dragonchic1986]

i just love technology so anyting that has to do wit tech has my attention

Same here. Anything techie related, even if I don't know what in the world it really is, has my attention. That way I end up learning something new; which is practically everyday.

[Ghost_writer]

its in my dna, i was born like this