My life with Gaming ended here (2)
Let’s continue from the previous post. I stay at MPH for 4 hours reading a few books before I get my butt home. That person at the counter starred at me, do you know we Malaysian all have thick skin ? Hahahaa I went to confront him told him I was doing some research at school but no cash to buy all this computer books that guy told me no worries go ahead but if his boss is around I need to stop doing that. then I told him no worries if his boss is around I’ll get my ass out of the bookstore. So on that day onwards I always go back to the MPH bookstore to read up on computer related books. Thank god I took 2 months to understand how does a computer work from the head to the toe what is CPU, memory , ROM and etc… Even dont know what the heck is DOS , Disk Operating System IBM and blah blah. MS DOS wa lau all this jargon really kill a secondary school student at my age. At Last I was able to boot my x86 computer with those floppy disk left behind by my dad’s friend I saw some message like MS-DOS 3.3 or something like that then a prompt came up something like A:\_ <blink> <blink> . Then as per norm I went back to the bookstore look for more information.
After all the crash course at the book store I even wrote my own notes on the piece of paperI finally learn a few commands like DIR , EDIT , ctrl+alt+del , MORE TYPE and etc. Even I started to learn QBASIC writing "Hello World" PRINT something … the more I know what can this machine can do I got hooked and keep going back to the bookstore.
I wrote a program that actually move a blinking cursor in QBASIC. Don’t ask me how did I do it I just got hooked with those syntax and etc start tried and error kinda of learning. I wrote automated menu list files , format floppy disk and etc..
November 10th, 2007 at 3:55 am
OIIIII dont do that lah…you coming into me and erwin terrority liao.Windows and DOS is our rice bow. You havent seen some of cool file commands DOS can do thou linux and unix got better features.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
so mph is your training ground! was very impressed when i heard that u knew how to create pdf and word docs on the fly when i was still struggling with servlets stuff….
November 21st, 2007 at 1:51 am
Haha, I didn’t actually know that even though I am your sister. You know la, everytime after school you are not at home till late evening. Or either you are in the room and I am having my afternoon nap. Else I am at Mr. Soosay’s tuition. Write more and more bro.
Anyway, yes I do remember Stephen kor kor gave us his old computer, then it was so old old old but thats the first computer we had. I remembered you teaching me and Juliana how to type codes to write sentences. Then I am pretty good myself as I got computer class in my primary school so I know what is dir/w and etc in msdos. Then there were some games, not like now though windows where you just point your mouse to it and double click. Have to go msdos to type and run it. hahaha… Do you still remember we budging in your room just to play that computer when there is some game. I don’t remember what game already was it mario? Anyway, it was fun man! True enough the cpu was noisy like an old engine running. =P
sweet memories. Those fragile floppy disk that have soft films in the middle ring. You always said don’t touch there it’s fragile and you will spoil it. HAHAHA…I guess I should ask Juliana to comment on what she think last time.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Hey bro,
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