At what age did you start using a computer? Describe that old thing.
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Very first computer was a Radio Shack Tandy (something or other), similar to this. I can't remember how old I was but in my teens at least. I remember being so pleased that I could write a simple program that changes the colors on screen.
Apr 09, 2012 08:05 by stephie -
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5 or 6 (1986). It was the Apple iic. I mostly tried to learn "apple basic"... I think apple basic II (don't quite remember). We played a game called Conan and couldn't get past the 2nd screen. Remember my dad telling me about bbs/internet/etc and trying to connect (failing) ... not sure he knew what he was doing. Good times. I think my brother still has it.
Apr 09, 2012 02:40 by faith -
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Being young and all I feel a little out of place. My first computer was a white tower that is now collecting dust beside our other home computer. It ran windows 95 and I didn't pay much attention to it
Apr 08, 2012 21:30 by coconut -
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pdp 8 in college 1977
Apr 08, 2012 20:00 by jdevlin -
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Commodore 64 when I was in kindergarten. 1984ish. We had games on cassette.
Apr 08, 2012 17:39 by jenaissance from iphone -
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I was 7/8 - 1981. IBM 5150 I believe.
Apr 08, 2012 15:44 by zoe from iphone -
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I think I was 13, and it was that Commodore 64 I posted about recently. It was amazing. It cost more than that new pc I bought last year, but it was also much more amazing. It had the weirdest feel to it because it was so light. When I turned it on, I knew I had found something magical, the best 'thing' I ever owned.
Apr 08, 2012 13:50 by chaomancer -
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I was 6 when we got our first family computer. It was a big white box with a really small screen xD
Apr 08, 2012 07:12 by insanityachieved -
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The 1st computer I can remember our family owning looked something like this IBM, with the huge floppy disks, that would loudly beep music or errors in the same annoying tone.. F8 normally turned off game music (as you raced in to stop it before anyone complained).
I started using them from around 4 years old I'm told and can still remember trying to create a chat bot in Command prompt by saving response text files.
Dad made the response to 'S*it": lots of full stops on each line scrolling down (making a falling effect) which promptly ended in- *plop*..
C:/dir, C:/games/dir, C:/games/cat.exe.. is that right? Wait, cd.. lol (geek joke)
Let's just say I learned to spell quickly with the command based games like 'Mother goose' and 'Police Quest'.. I loved that old thing :)Apr 08, 2012 04:10 by forestchic -
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Commodore 64 in 1984. I was only 6 so my memory is a little hazy. I do remember I had an Usborne programming book.
Apr 08, 2012 02:53 by sarah from iphone -
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It was an old Tandy TRS-80 (c 1979) I was using at work around 1987 with two 7-1/2" floppies. It looked like an old refrigerator and ran about as fast. Got a lot of practice entering BASIC code and managed to automate production, inventory, billing and order processing. No internet, no hard drives, no mouse, no sound, no videos... how barbaric. When you fired it up, it said
READY
>_Apr 08, 2012 02:49 by jdproductions
