Poll: How long have you been using a computer?

[scorpmatt]

for about 14 yrs +/-

 

[urbantechie]

<< Man what a bunch of newbies, I have owned a computer since 1980. Thats over 20yrs. >>



Exxxxccuuuusseee me, I wasn't even born in 1980!

 

[geno]

Since I was 10, which makes that 7 years

 

[renovation]

my first was a at no hard drive and dual 5 1/2 floppys all dos !man was it fast with i1 meg of ram the year was 1988 so that is 22 years ago

 

[UWDawg]

10 years.

 

[NetworkDad]

Since 1985 - i think it was elementary school with Apple IIE's - I remember swapping out the large 5 1/4 disks out all the time.

Unfortunately, most schools still use CrApple. Thank god i left that cult many years ago...

 

[TonyH]

<< the year was 1988 so that is 22 years ago >>



Remind me not to let him do my taxes

I studied programing back in '78, about 22 years ago
I remember hours doing punch cards, and the mainframes.
Never got around them after that until about '94. Since then everything's been kind of foggy.

 

[Jalapeno]

VIC20. Does it ring a bell or weren't you born back then?

A REAL computer you mean? Five years ago!

 

[samarth]

4 years

 

[blahbooboo2]

WOw, first computer in 1985! Apple IIe baby! Boy, miss the days computers were HARD! Guess that is why I like LINUX now.

 

[Emulex]

1979 first computer

 

[The LIdless Eye]

Since about '78, when the owner of the local Radio Shack
would let me use the TRaSh-80's any time I wanted. Nice guy.

(Man, I feel like an old fart)

 

[jpsj82]

Got my brand new Apple IIgs back in the mid 1980s. It was loaded with 256 ram (k not mb). Also it had no hd, but it had two external drives (5.25 big floppy and 3.5 little floppy).

 

[gunf1ghter]

Got my Commodore 64 when I was about 13 years old, so that would be 16 years.

 

[Supradude]

Well, theres been a computer in my house since i was born so i've tinkered = ) &quot;i.e. gamed ha ha&quot;
but seriously have some knowledge i'd say 10 years... my dad's hella old skool... he's told me stories bout when computers were the size of a two bedroom and it only had like 8kb of memory, and it took some poor guy a whole night of entering punch cards to run some stupid calculations... = )

 

[shiner]

I'm 30 and have been using serious computers for 16 years...of course before that I had a TI-99a and a Commodore 64. Ohhhh....those were the days...

 

[RaDragon]

Since 1985 (I was 9)... My fave game was 'Karateka'

 

[RevVveD1]

Heh.. I still remember my timex sinclair 1000 and its awesome 2k of memory. It had to refresh the entire screen(quite slowly I might add) every time you typed in a letter on the chicklet liek keyboard..

I was amazed the day I finally got the adapter cable to hook a cassette recorder to it to actually save a program...

heh

 

[Supradude]

KARATEKA!!! ha ha &quot;ya,ya, eeee-YEAH!!!&quot; dodedo,dun dun dun... he he
i just remember that sweet game on Apple II witht he caveman dude on the rock unicycle... = P

 

[bluemax]

17+ years now. Started with a TI99 4/a. (Fun machine!) Graduated to a Tandy1000SX, best XT machine out there! near-EGA graphics and much better sound... I was the envy of all my friends.

 

[cxim]

since 1970, IBM mainframe, PDPs for years

 

[airfoil]

10+ years.

 

[Moltnrok]

First computer was a Vic-20 when I was 5--tape drive, and games that plugged into the keyboard if I remember right...must have been in 82 or 83, about 19 years I guess...still have lots to learn

 

[cyclistca]

About 20 years give or take. First exposure to a computer was in highschool on a Trash 80.

 

[warcleric]

1979, had a mainframe in our house.....on loan from Cornell Univ.