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

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: geekender
Crap....totally forgot about my Grandfather's Tandy 1000.....I used to play Chuck Yeager's flight sim

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat? Heh, I still have my copy somewhere.

 

[Rallispec]

85 or 86

2nd grade... i was the all time oregon trail master.



does anyone here remember logo-- the graphics program.. i tore that up in 3rd grade.

 

[The Stigenator]

First computer I worked on. Dec (Digital) PDP-11 Microcomputer with 64K of RAM.

Micro = 6 feet tall, it was the smallest of the PDP series. It controlled a windtunnel and did other stuff. It was my dad's work computer that we used. We wrote some games in basic and played them. Text games. Later we got a Sinclair ZX80 and then a IBM PC 8088 proc based. Then a 286 and then a 386 .....and so on .

I used the PDP at age 6.

 

[macwinlin]

I remember having an Atari 800XL when I was 5 or 6 yrs. old. We didn't do a whole lot except playing games. We had game cartridges of Donkey Kong, Joust, Dig Dug and Ms. Pac Man. Even had an F-15 simulation game.

It wasn't until I was 8 or 9 in which my family got an Apple IIGS. Since my dad was a teacher, he got quite a bit of MECC software (either the publisher and/or developer-I forgot-of Oregon Trail and a lot of educational software) and a lot of stuff from the Apple IIe, but not as much support for the actual IIGS platform. I remember a few games from the Apple IIGS platform such as Silpheed, Alien Mind, Tass Times in Tonetown(?) and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?.

 

[BigJohnKC]

The first computer we owned was a Commodore 64, but the fist one I remember using was an Apple II back in grade school.

 

[Fausto]

Man, I remember a friend of mine had a PC (can't recall the brand) with a tape drive and a small screen that had green pixels about [] <---- that big on it. That must have been around 1978 or so. I recall him getting a Commodore 64 years later and thinking it was the best thing since sliced bread.

 

[Beau]

Workstation on a Unix Mainframe at my gma's travel agency when I was 5.

 

[Doggiedog]

I remember using some kind of Texas Instruments PC when I was in the 3rd grade. I remember some program called Turtles.

RT90
Go 90
RT 90

etc.

 

[macwinlin]

Originally posted by: Rallispec
85 or 86

2nd grade... i was the all time oregon trail master.



does anyone here remember logo-- the graphics program.. i tore that up in 3rd grade.

I can't remember if it was my mom or dad who introduced me to it... I didn't fully use it until 6th grade when I wrote some programs for a class project for my computer class.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Rallispec
85 or 86

2nd grade... i was the all time oregon trail master.



does anyone here remember logo-- the graphics program.. i tore that up in 3rd grade.

I remember logo, with the turtle for the cursor! That was friggin cool. Is there a PC port to that anywhere?

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

I rembered playing ReaderRabbit in DOS on my 386 when i was maybe in 2nd grade. My mom refused to buy a computer untill one came out that had internal memory and hard drive or something compared to whatever else might have been around at the time.

 

[Booster]

5th grade or so. I remember learning to write some Basic programs. It was boring.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: 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.

Ok then 1984, and I was 4. The Atari 400 is the less-powerful precursor to the Atari 800 in the first link above. It didn't support a floppy drive, but it did support a casette tape drive, and had an external BASIC interpreter (which I still have). It did have a keyboard, although it was terrible and we replaced ours with the real keyboard from an 800.

 

[SSP]

286. I was ~9 or 10. Thats when my family moved to Canada.

 

[BatmanNate]

My earliest memories of playing with my Father's computers were of some Xerox dedicated word processing machines, and a Kaypro that we nick named Darth Vader's Lunchbox. (You'd understand if you've ever used a kaypro)

 

[boi]

When I was 7, I remember playing king-kong on that sucker. I forgot what kind of system it was though. I got my first computer when I was 10.

 

[monk3y]

3rd grade when I used an apple IIe.

 

[pac1085]

I got my first computer at 4 or 5, it was a commodore 64. I got my first PC not long after, a compaq 286 with a 10mb bernoulli drive(that cartridge was huge) Born in 85..so you do the math

 

[microAmp]

Apple IIc, played Conan and Montezuma's Revenge. Must of been 1984, 1985 or there abouts.

 

[SludgeFactory]

TI-99 4/A at age 7. With a 13" black and white TV for a monitor (also shared by an Atari 2600 for a while). And a cassette tape.

Learned some BASIC but got in over my head when exponential math started popping up in some programs.

 

[djheater]

TI99-4A

We had the voice synthesizer too

 

[McPhreak]

Anyone remember "Logo" the craptastic turtle for the apple? We used to have this robot in the classroom that could communicate with the computer and run around the floor according to the Logo commands you used. We had state of the art technology back then...

 

[djheater]

Oh....this is sooooo cool... There's an emulator for the TI-99

 

[Evadman]

I remember playing in pre-school. I had the name of the game we played ( there only was one ) but I have it tucked aways somewhere

I also remember Oregon trail from a little after that period. I even have Oregon trail

 

[CubicZirconia]

Apple IIc, played Conan and Montezuma's Revenge

Montezuma's Revenge was a great game. I have some good memories of that one. I was probably around 4 when I first used a pc.