How old were you when you....you know....

[geekender]

...first used a PC?

My first memory of actually playing on a PC was in 2nd grade. They taught us how to do Basic programs on an Apple IIe.

10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
run

Wish I could remember the name of the games we played on my Uncle's Apple IIc. Amazon trail was one. There was another one that you took off from an aircraft carrier and bombed the Japanese villages and had dogfights....all in 2-D. Really creative.

 

[crab]

1st grade. IBM PS/2 286 w/ no HDD.

 

[Electric Amish]

Commodore 64 + tape drive

5th grade.

amish

 

[pyonir]

i don't remember the grade or age, but it was an Apple IIe, and my first home comp was a Classic Mac.

 

[BCYL]

I was Grade 5... my Uncles gave my family a PC as a gift... it was a 386 with 30mb harddrive...

we didnt have computers at school in Asia, so no chance to use one unless u have one at home...

 

[geekender]

Crap....totally forgot about my Grandfather's Tandy 1000.....I used to play Chuck Yeager's flight sim and Need for Speed on it......16 colors....sucked but was fun. No hard drive. F-15 flight eagle from Microprose was on that one too. You couldn't use is on any other machine. The first computer I owned was a Commodore Vic-20. Stupid cassette drive....used to crash all the time.

 

[Viper GTS]

I was extremely young when my dad got his first computer (Atari), I don't remember ever NOT having a PC around & being involved with it in some way.

Viper GTS

 

[rgwalt]

First memory was in second grade. It was an IBM 8086 with two large floppy drives, no hard drive, CGA graphics, and 640K of memory.

Ryan

 

[smp]

Grade 4 .. apple IIe

macpaint .. or was it a apple iise? The fishbowl thing, the old school little box with a screen.

 

[Zim Hosein]

I don't remember the age or grade either, but it was a IIe IIRC

 

[dakata24]

2nd or 3rd grade..

oregon trail baby.. and print shop.. on a apple ii/e

edit: oh wait, that was grade school. probably earlier with my dad's radio shack trs-80.. tic tac toe is all i remember.. plus it had that cassette tape drive thing...

 

[Michael1897]

1st grade
man she was pretty

 

[J3anyus]

I can't remember, but I think I was 3 or 4. We got a Mac Classic when I was 5 or 6, and I always used to write dumb programs for it. I've been doing computer stuff since I was a little kid.

 

[Ramsnake]

8 yrs old

Spectrum...cassette software loader....pacman, sir lancelot..and other lame ass games...but did enjoy pacman

 

[Quaggoth]

I was 6. My father bought a TRS 80 Color computer II (With the 16 color upgrade. I tought myself how to program in basic by 7 and was writing complex programs by 8 (Inventory program for Dad's harley shop, a racing game, a few songs, bunch of other stuff...) First real game was Chuck Yeagers air combat or something to that effect..., then Stunt Driver. Funny thing is Sim's are still my favorite (I'm 24 now).

 

[LordMaul]

I don't remember ever NOT having a PC around & being involved with it in some way.

 

[pulse8]

First time I remember using one was probably in 6th grade which was 90-91.

I got my first home computer in 7th grade and have had one ever since.

Edit: Actually, I had an Atari when I was even younger than that. Probably 3rd or 4th grade.

 

[geekender]

Heck it was 1989 before I ever got on the internet. Compuserve. Was only good for chat, muds and hoping you could learn enough to hack into the pentagon. Yeah....I never got that last one down.

I never did get really good at programming. Never had the patience.

 

[Jzero]

Define "PC."

There was an Odyssey ][ in my house from about the day I was born. I vaguely remember playing with it when I was 2 or 3 years old, but I was far too young to actually comprehend what was going on.

In 1984 we bought an Atari 400. We even had the 410 Casette drive. I will point out that I still have this system and it's still in perfect working order. I have saved it from the garbage heap many many times in the past ~15 years. I had the BASIC interpreter cart and even learned some crude programming. We also swapped out the crappy membrane keyboard with one with real keys from an Atari 800.

Around 1988 we bought a C-64. This served as my computer until we took a step backwards in 1993 and bought a "PC."

So depending on whether you consider an Atari 400 or a C64 a PC, it's either 1984, 1988 or 1993.
I was born in 1979, so you do math

 

[Cyco]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
I don't remember the age or grade either, but it was a IIe IIRC

Same here. First home computer was a Texas Instruments TI99-4/A.

 

[Vortex22]

We got a 368SX when I was 6... They had Apple IIe's in school at about that time I think.

I'm 17 now btw.

 

[geekender]

Define "PC."

Personal computer....not console game (ie Atari or Nintendo/Snes). Atari counts if you had one of their (brief lifespan) computers. And another.

 

[Scarpozzi]

1983....Commodore VIC 20. Good system, but as said above, the tape drive sucked. I was happy to replace my VIC 20 with a Commodore 64. I had a 1541, then a 1581 disk drive that just made that system rock. I soon replaced my 64 with an Amiga 500, then bumped up to a IBM PS2 model 50z. At some point, I did acquire a Macintosh Plus (debuted in 1984), but I don't really count that as a computer...(currently used a doorstop and has been for as long as I can remember. NO JOKE)

 

[Chaotic42]

Age 4. I wrote a little game back then on my C64.

That's 1986.

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Commodore 64 baby!