charlie
11-11-2000, 06:58 AM
Hi everybody.
I’m Charlie, from Norwich, England, and, as you can tell from my username, I have a limited imagination.
I must admit to feeling a little out of my depth in this company, my own experience of computers being limited to a short-lived dalliance with a Sinclair ZX81 & Spectrum in the early 80s (I did learn some BASIC programming – but with only 15k of memory, secured with sellotape, it was truly basic). Since then, due to family commitments/lack of cash/etc., I have been restricted to an Amstrad PCW for word-processing and some confused dabbling with CP/M.
However, I finally have a 700mhz/PIII that I am determined to try to understand. In my ignorance, I had assumed that a modern PC would look after itself (yes, I can hear you chuckle) - until those dreaded Illegal Operation/Fatal Exception error messages (those guys at Microsoft sure like to over dramatize things) began to convince me that I was actually going to have to work a bit harder. That’s why I was so glad to come across this site – which has the best ‘vibe’ (I know that word’s no longer in circulation, but it fits) of any I’ve visited. Many thanks to Charles, the founding father of this virtual community,for putting in all the work to set the site up – and to all you PCmeisters for the time you put into sorting out other people’s problems. Given my own ineptitude – and the fact that most computer manuals strike me as about as straightforward as a Palm Beach ballot paper - I figure it is my job to keep the rest of you employed for a while! After all, if we all knew what we were doing what would you do with your spare time? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
P.S.: Stonedragon: any tips on good (but cheap) music composition software?
I’m Charlie, from Norwich, England, and, as you can tell from my username, I have a limited imagination.
I must admit to feeling a little out of my depth in this company, my own experience of computers being limited to a short-lived dalliance with a Sinclair ZX81 & Spectrum in the early 80s (I did learn some BASIC programming – but with only 15k of memory, secured with sellotape, it was truly basic). Since then, due to family commitments/lack of cash/etc., I have been restricted to an Amstrad PCW for word-processing and some confused dabbling with CP/M.
However, I finally have a 700mhz/PIII that I am determined to try to understand. In my ignorance, I had assumed that a modern PC would look after itself (yes, I can hear you chuckle) - until those dreaded Illegal Operation/Fatal Exception error messages (those guys at Microsoft sure like to over dramatize things) began to convince me that I was actually going to have to work a bit harder. That’s why I was so glad to come across this site – which has the best ‘vibe’ (I know that word’s no longer in circulation, but it fits) of any I’ve visited. Many thanks to Charles, the founding father of this virtual community,for putting in all the work to set the site up – and to all you PCmeisters for the time you put into sorting out other people’s problems. Given my own ineptitude – and the fact that most computer manuals strike me as about as straightforward as a Palm Beach ballot paper - I figure it is my job to keep the rest of you employed for a while! After all, if we all knew what we were doing what would you do with your spare time? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
P.S.: Stonedragon: any tips on good (but cheap) music composition software?