Competition: Win a 500GB WD External HDD and Case [CLOSED]
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In partnership with John Lewis one lucky reader of Technology Blogged this month can get their hands on a Western Digital My Passport 500GB Essential external portable hard drive and accompanying Built NY Hoodie case to keep it in tip top condition.
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Extra Bonus
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How to enter
All you have to do is comment on this page and tell us about your first ever experience with a computer, for your chance to win this prize with a RRP of £84.90.
Please note that entries in to this competition must be from the UK only please. Please leave your real e-mail address as this is how we will contact the winner.
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Announcing the winner
We will announce the winner on Tuesday the 30th of August, 30/08/2011 and results will be drawn through random.org.
The prizes this month come courtesy of John Lewis, who sell a wide range of laptops and laptop accessories, as well as other gadgets such as iPods and the iPad 2.
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We have a winner!
Well done to….
Sam, who commented “All good entries I must say. My first experience was with a Commodore and that thing was sloooooow.” on August 18, 2011 at 7:54 AM.
Thank you to all our entries. In total we received 57 entries, 26 from comments and the remainder through retweeting. Results were generated through random.org, and below you can see a confirmation of this number. From a possible 57, Jay was 18 on the comments.
My first ever experience with a computer was when I was 8 (now 21) and if I remember rightly it was a Compaq and at the time pretty blistering.
I used to go to the control panel and get out the speech client and type silly stuff with my brother. It is fair to say we laughed like crazy!
First ever experience:My sister was hogging this new shiny metal housed appliance in the living room. I didn’t know what it was, but I wanted a go. My sister, being older, didn’t let me.
It was at this point I got a small cup of water and threw it on her, only to be severely told off by my father.
Apparently water and electricity don’t mix, which was new news to a 5 year old.
I need a HDD for my job, please give me it? lol.
My first experience with a computer was when I was about 7 or 8 I think. My nan got my brother and I a ZX Spectrum from a car boot sale!! We thought it was the best thing ever, we didn’t even seem to mind so much that the tapes took ages and ages to load, or the fact that half the time the games didn’t even load properly.
We had a few games, a batman game, a fruit machine simulator ……. can’t remember the others now. We thought it was all very sophisticated and high tech. Ahh the good old days.
My first experience was with the Apple Lisa, although to be fair it wasn’t a great one and the thing was a shocker!
My 1st computer was a spectrum, with its annoying noise and basic games, I used to play the game where you bat the ball to the other side of the screen then hit it back. I was about 3 at the time or less even.
great prize, fingers crossed
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My first experience with a computer was on a Windows 98 PC which my father replaced, and gave to me. It had 96mb of RAM, a 900mhz processor and a 10GB hard drive. It was unbelievably slow, but I got by. A few years later, it got replaced with a 386mb, 1.6ghz Dell monster PC (for it’s time) and I was really curious to find out what was inside a computer, so I decided to take apart my old PC. I was amazed by all the components inside of the PC, and the complexity required for one to run. I decided to go further inside, so I took out the processor. After exploring the whole PC I put everything back together. Without realising, I actually bent the pins in the processor, and the computer began to get very hot rather quickly. I opened it up again and touched the processor, I burnt my finger, and I realised I had melted the board beneath the processor aswell as burning my finger and bending the pins. That taught me to be careful when changing processors, and don’t forget to put the fan back on!
Nice prizes! My first experience was with a calculator because it is a computer.
My first experience with a computer was when I was about 8 and I used to spend hours and hours on pinball! I never even realised there was an internet and just use to play the computer games. Oh how times have changed!
My first computer experience was my dads commodore 64 which had a cassette deck I got a book to prorgram your own games and spent all day doing one to end up with a rubbish game that consisted of a few letters jumping round a screen.
This is my first experience.
Wow theres some old PC’s up there. My first experience I honestly can’t remember, however I remember the monitor sitting on top of the computer and it was extremely thick.
Was at school on a very old BBC computer? Or am I dreaming it? It had a few colours and made a bit of noise. A fair way of the iPads of today!
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My first expirence with a computer was when for my 10th birthday me and my dad built a computer from scratch only for my dad to find out that at 10 i prefered to try and force plugs into sockets they didnt fit into and that i prefered playing with the case instead of the end result
My first experience with with a computer, was an eventful one…When it arrived i hadn’t a clue how to set it up or anything, so i switched it on with excitement,without knowing i had to install a disc, all i got on the main screen was ‘Safe Mode’, so i kept switching it off and back on again, still nothing was working, i gave up in the end. The next day i rang the PC help advice line to see what i was doing wrong, they told i hadn’t installed the disc, so without hesitation i installed the disk,whilst on the phone to the person giving me advice, in the end they had to end out a tech guy due to i had fried the mother board :/ Oooooppss
My first time i tries to use my sons computer i switch it on and held the mouse up to the sceeen i thought it could not be working mined it gave my son a good laugh when he got hime and i said your computers not working thats a great memory i have to keep
All good entries I must say.My first experience was with a Commodore and that thing was sloooooow.
My first experience with a computer was an RM link 480Z which we had at school, I was forced in to writing software for it by my crazy maths teacher, and ended up being taught how to bypass security for “educational” purposes. I have never looked back.
I can’t remember my first experience, although it certainly wasn’t a Core i7 spec PC!
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One word. Apple Lisa. Urgh.
My first computer experience was some kind of an antiquated AppleMac type. It was quite fun to use and preceded the PC point and click we are familiar with now.
I remember being quite fascinated by an Amstrad PC which looked and functioned brilliantly – the downside being that you couldn’t really transfer any work you did into something else.
All very different from today – I’m composing this on a laptop with wireless internet access – a far cry from my first encounters with computers.
@donaldYeah I liked Amstrad PC’s too.My first experience was (as noted above by a different person) with a calculator, although my best experience was with OS X.
I’m not as old as some of the people commenting here, but my first experience was with a Windows 95 PC and it was pretty cool back then.
Haha it’s amazing how computers move on! 98MB of RAM is minuscule however it just goes to show how un-advanced operating systems were in 98, 95 etc. Any machine with 1GB of RAM back then would be considered god.