Your first computer.

Yeah, so like I said, the voice was annoying on it, but for what it was back then, it was doing its job. And the good thing was that when I was in high school, they actually let me carry it around with me, take it home, things like that. And it was actually quite easier than carrying around a Perkins Brailler.
If something had happened to it, then I would have to carry one, I'd have to go and get it and take it back after the lessons and things like that until I got another computer. But yeah, the only thing I actually liked about it was the fact that I could turn the screen off.
On at least one occasion. But yeah, the voice was absolutely horrendous.

Sorry, yeah, I think it was an IBM, although I have a feeling it was something else, but I really can't remember. Anyway, it was a cute little laptop and it did have a hard disk, although obviously not a lot of space on there like it's in today's standards. But yeah, what else? That had Windows 3.1 on it.
I used to use that for school, obviously, and I actually had a PCMCIA Arctic voice in it, PCMCIA ICAD, but it was the Arctic voice, so it was WinVision in Windows and then ArcticVision for DOS.
So that I first got on the net with, but I wasn't able to access the net in Windows 3.1 at that stage. I actually used the internet in DOS. I used shell accounts. Yeah, so I guess Liz and everybody else, when you speak about your first computer, what operating system did you use? Yeah, I'd be curious about that.
Because Windows 3.1 was very, very limiting, of course, but it was all right for the time.

Ah, don't talk to me about Windows Millennium. No, I'm sure it's a good operating system for a lot of people and it was for me at the start too. I actually got Windows Millennium installed on my computer by a friend and it was working great guns for a while but then I was installing RealPlayer one time and
something happened during the installation and it locked my computer up. So after trying everything I eventually just gave it a hard reset and it booted up okay but from then on I kept getting this error. The file was called something like jhost.exe is not working properly and had to shut down. I can't remember exactly what the words were but and then I'd have to reboot my computer.
Each time I got the error I only could last about five minutes on the computer and then the error would come up and I'd have to reboot. It was horrible. I actually tried to Google the error. I did find it but I didn't know how to fix it. So eventually I just had to reformat and put XP on. I think it was XP. Yeah, it was XP that I put on then but that wasn't this computer.
It was another computer I had. So yeah that was my limited experience with CME. I wasn't really impressed but I mean yeah like I said when it was working it worked great. I obviously did something when I hard reset it but there was nothing else I could do. I had no option so anyway you get that.

Ah, yes, the Keynote Gold speech. I always hated that. Oh, Keynote Gold. Although I can't do it, but it's awful. Um, yeah, um, I had, there was another blind boy at my high school and he had one. Oh, and it was awful because we'd, um, we'd have our private, our free periods in the same room because it was our integration room, the same room that I was saying that I kept all my textbooks.
And, oh, all I could hear when I was trying to rap was na-na-na, na-na-na. It's got such a, such a, um, what's the word? Such a boring voice. Such a really expressionless and, oh, awful that voice. But, uh, I preferred Arctic and, uh, well, even Eloquence now. But, um, no, Keynote, Keynote Gold is probably one of the worst voices.
And, and what's more is that, um, when I got my first Braille note, um, that had the Keynote voice. Luckily, I, you know, just read the Braille, but, and had the speech off, but that was annoying. Um, so fortunately, the later Braille notes got Eloquence, so that's what's in my Braille, my later Braille notes. So, yeah. Anyway, I, uh, I pity you for having a Keynote. It's awful. Ha!

Yeah, my BrailleNote Empower also has Keynote Gold and I haven't used that ever since I transplanted the Classic to Empower and switched to Eloquence. But that was maybe annoying, but have you heard BrailleSpeak and BrailleBlazer? I think those voices are a bit more over the top, but yeah, like Keynote Gold was
not, I don't know, kind of mechanical, but yeah, Eloquence was more, like, nicer to listen to, yeah.

Okay, here's something I never ever thought I would say in my life. Never. Because, I don't know, I just thought I'd never say it. But after hearing that, um, voice, keynote voice for years and years and years, I, I, I actually appreciate, not very much, but I do, I appreciate Microsoft Sam. I mean, he's the most boring voice I've ever heard, but anything is
way better than that keynote voice. Anything. Including Sam. But, so he, yeah, he's boring, but, um, and lifeless and all that sort of thing. And, I wish I didn't have to use him as my clango voice on my desktop, but, you know, that's how it goes. I can't have everything, but anyway, at least, if I had a choice back then, I would definitely have chosen Microsoft
Microsoft SAM.

Ah, my first computer. Well, it depends if you're talking about first use of a computer or first computer at home. I will therefore tell you that I started using computer in 1994 and it was MS-DOS at the time. And we had to work with WordPerfect. Of course, we did not have the
Internet at that time. As far as my own computer, it was in 2003, XP, home. It was a HP, which was followed by a laptop. And then now this computer that I have now is still alive, still works fine, so no problem with it. And I have
now a laptop on Vista. But I could see through the years that technology has evolved a great deal since 1990. No, I started using it in 1993, not 4. So you see it's quite some time ago now.

Hello Princess, are you from Great Britain?

Hey everybody, it's Jake. And my first computer was actually, well, I'll start at the beginning. My family's first computer was an Apple IIe.
Back in the day, it had Echo, that very excited speech. And my brother and sister and I used to play on that thing for hours.
And we loved it. We had Text Talker. And we had a bunch of games. And then one of my sisters actually sat on the computer.
And I don't know why, she was probably mad about something. Anyway, that was the end of that. And then, let's see, I got a Toshiba laptop in high school.

Hey Jake, that was the very same computer that I ever used in the 90s. I played Hangman and Star Wars and Lunar Lander and Storytime, all them old games. I played Pig, used the old WordTalk program. Those were the good old days.

Hello, my first computer was Pentium 4 with 40 gigabytes hard disk and 256 RAM memory. Which I hate the memory.
Now I use laptop with 320 gigabytes hard disk and 3 gigabytes RAM. And it's cool. Greetings.

Hey guys, it's Brian. Yeah, my first computer was an Apple IIe actually and it was pretty fun. And it's also the first computer, it's also where I learned programming on an Apple IIe. I just used the list command when I ran a program, looked at the basic lines real carefully and learned how to use text talker and stuff like that.
Actually, learned how to do some programming and stuff, which the computer will add to that. I think it was an MS-DOS machine, but I didn't have a synthesizer with it. I actually rigged up something with an Accent SA synthesizer that I had.
I mixed out the serial port and let it be read by that, which was cool. Then it was Windows 98. Well, first it was 95, then 98. Then XP. I had a brief look at 2000. It's not all that good for some weird reason, but... Now my current computer is Windows 7. The one before that was Vista, but...
An Apple IIe was my first computer because I played with it at school a lot and it was pretty fun, but... That's where I first learned programming and stuff, which is pretty awesome. So, see you later.