the first time (ever) you did something on a computer ?

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
organ trail and a math game I can't recall the name off. like math munchers or something where you controlled a little alien dude and ate the correct numbers.

googled it...Number Munchers!

Man I loved that game. And in life it led me to a minor in math :beer:


edit: and a Link

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: flexy
i try to remember,
but the first time i ever sat in front of a computer was in the very early 80s at a fair. IBM had a booth there with two huge PCs which ran some programs. I had a discounted weekly ticket to the fair because my dad was there too with his company he worked for.

IBM had this 'moon lander' game running..this text game written in BASIC where it 'simulated' a moon lander and you had to enter the acceleration values (AFAIK) of the space craft so it didnt crash

I remember how fascinated i was by these huge machines...like they contained the answer to everything and had incredible calculation powers now at the tip of your fingers/keyboard (Of course i didnt have any clue what to type..but it was fascinating)

I wrote a Fortran program for a class but I am not sure exactly when though...

 

[AFB]

HTML in second grade.

 

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: kranky
The first computer I used, I never actually touched. We would create programs on punch cards and hand them in at the computer center. Later we'd come back and they would return the cards along with the printout of the job run.

The first one I actually touched was a million-dollar CAD system based on a DEC PDP 11/70. I used an $80,000 workstation to do CAD drafting. It was amazing. To reboot the PDP, you would set a bunch of switches on the front to indicate the address of the boot program then hit the load switch.

my first experience was punched card programming in 1973.
ahhh, Fortrash!!!

 

[DT4K]

It was at a science museum. They had an exhibit about computers and they had a lab filled with TRS-80's and Apple II's. You could sign up for an hour at a time and use the computers for free. I was about 7 or 8 years old and thought it was just the coolest thing I had ever seen. A couple years later, I convinced my uncle to buy me a commodore 64 in exchange for mowing his lawn every week for the whole summer.

 

[Anubis]

we had a 286 running Dos when i first used one, uwse word perfect and plaied chess and GODS

w then upgraded to a 386 or 486 and got windows 3.1

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Two words.... Oregon Trail!!!

word

Wow I remember that

 

[Tom]

Senior year in high school, 1973-74, math teacher got an IBM mini-computer for advanced math students. Don't remember much about it.

1974 learned FORTRAN at Ohio State, had to write programs on punch cards to run on their mainframe.

 

[Kadarin]

Damn! Some of you guys are older than I am!

 

[JetBlack69]

Could Oregon Trail be considered the first first-person-shooter for when you went hunting?

 

[etech]

Originally posted by: Sysadmin
The first computer I ever saw was when I was in college back in '82 . I took a basic programming class and the computer was huuuuuuge and read punch cards


Sysadmin

1974 and the language was Fortran IV.

You went into one room to type your program onto the cards and then got in line in another to feed them into the card reader. You then prayed that the program that was stuck in a loop and spitting out reams of paper wasn't yours.

 

[RedPickle]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Two words.... Oregon Trail!!!

 

[kenshorin]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Number Munchers![/b]

:beer:

 

[DWW]

around 17 years ago when I was 4 years old I was in my fathers office (who was a programmer)
and decided for some reason unknown to me, to flip the power switch off on his trs-80 model 3 and effectively kill the COBOL program he had been working on for two days ><
I'd say I really go into computers 3 years later when I was 7 and got my first Tandy

Never realized how long computers have been in my life actually...wow

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Two words.... Oregon Trail!!!

Yep! On an Apple II Also help my teacher figure out how to keep grades on it with her grading program. That was a good 20-25 years ago.

 

[Orsorum]

I remember Oregon Trail on my Apple Color Classic. And Number Munchers.

They got me where I am today!

 

[thomsbrain]

i could beat oregan trail in 11 minutes flat! it's easy: never hunt, always go the maximum distance everyday, and screw the people who die. you'll make it with one guy left and then you just have to navigate that pesky river. good times.

 

[glen]

1978 TRS-80

 

[glen]

1978 TRS-80

 

[acemcmac]

1989, Mac Classic, Macintosh Bacics Tutorial my dad loaded... I fed the fish until it died...

 

[matt426malm]

Originally posted by: kenshorin

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Number Munchers![/b]

:beer:

Ah second grade man I was about to mention that and oregon trail, Dammit i have dysentery again? Everyone would always giggle when they got dysentery. good times

with the big freaking floppies

 

[EyeMWing]

TRS-80 when I was like... Three. Didn't do much except push the buttons.

 

[saxophonoia]

Originally posted by: SherEPunjab
n e 1 remember the Qbasic games? they were cool. snake, and the gorilla that throws banannas and breaks office buildings.

The gorilla game was classic. Definitely one of the funnest games to play.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: saxophonoia

Originally posted by: SherEPunjab
n e 1 remember the Qbasic games? they were cool. snake, and the gorilla that throws banannas and breaks office buildings.

The gorilla game was classic. Definitely one of the funnest games to play.

That was a video game?!?!

 

[Sid59]

sitcky bear MATH