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

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: 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.

Wings of Fury? I love that game.... Just power up an emulator and you can play all the games you ever wanted to play for apple...

 

[CraigRT]

first PC was an IBM PS/1 8mhz 286 with a 40MB HDD.

it did 256 colors. IMPRESSIVE!!!

i was like 8 or 9

 

[Vic]

About 8 I think... whenever the very first black school-issue AppleII's came out, which I think was '79. My dad was a school teacher and he negotiated the contract for the district to buy the machines at ~$1,200 each, and then always made sure we had one in the house. I remember the old text-based role playing games, pre-Oregon Trail...
My older brother bought an Atari 800 a year or so later. That was the bomb, 256 colors, 48K RAM, cartridge and cassette tape drive, great games.

 

[ABErickson]

Do punch cards count as a computer? If so, a freshmen in college. Went to the old 8088 in more sophmore year though.

 

[hoihtah]

2nd grade.
it was back when XT's were big.

apple ][
apple IIe
pc XT
mac se
mac si
mac powerbook 180
mac APS 604e/200
mac powermac 9500
pc P2/400
pc amd k6-2/450
pc amd duron 750
pc amd atholon 1ghz
pc amd duron 950
pc dell latitude lappy c 500
mac imac 233 rev a.

i think that about lists all the computers that i gone through in chronological order.

 

[Yossarian451]

Apple IIc, always had it around to the extent of my memopry, we had a whole bunch of pirated games on the big ol floppies. Still have the computer even.

 

[StattlichPassat]

I don't count Apples. Our first family computer was an old Compaq 286 laptop back in 1992 that we used for typing up grociery lists and E-mailing other parts of the family on Prodigy.

 

[StattlichPassat]

Originally posted by: 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.

My grandfather had a Tandy 1000 and I used to play Chuck Yeager's flight sim too! That was back around 1991, so nm my above post... cool!

 

[DanFungus]

it must have been....kindergarten or 1st grade on a Mac, playing number munchers It was when there was only DOS for PC

 

[ThunderGirl]

Never heard of Amazon trail we played Oregon Trail. And it was the apple IIE as well and it had that funky green text crap. I hated it.