What was the first thing you did on a computer?

[slpaulson]

I played some games on the school computers in elementry school. Possibly Oregon trail or something similar.

 

[Vegito]

First pc trs-80 was for basic programming... then came the pc-xt with a 300 baud modem..

trying to donwnload porn off the local bbs with 10 min restriction !!! u pick the smallest file u can find and download..

upgrade to a 2400 more porn..

thats what i did with my first real pc.. porn

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: drsafety
This game called outpost that was pretty good

also mech Warrior 2

oooh i love mech warrior series... i love the original .. had a 286 back then... took like 10 min to walk to the destination.. was fun.. also love the battletech series.. though never got far on #2

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

In 2nd grade they made us type. When we had to do capital letters, I typed so damn slow (7 WPM) the program made me do it over and over again till I hit 10 WPM. I almost cried, and my uncle sent me a typing game and even lectured me saying I need to learn how to type well. I was like WTF??

But I know I had a computer as a 5 yr old (286). just dont remember what I did with it.

In my junior yr in high school, we played this typing game for fun online, and I kept scoring well over 100 WPM. I don't know If I can do the same (whether neffage has tought me to type even faster), but I'm sure I'm still around there for the most part.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Vegito
First pc trs-80 was for basic programming... then came the pc-xt with a 300 baud modem..

trying to donwnload porn off the local bbs with 10 min restriction !!! u pick the smallest file u can find and download..

upgrade to a 2400 more porn..

thats what i did with my first real pc.. porn

CGA porn...ooh baby.

 

[shortylickens]

When I was about 4, (back in 1983) dad brought home a weird little thing from work.
It looked sort of like a cheap O'scope but with a keyboard. Small CRT display (it was blue and black), odd floppy drive, it didnt use the standard 5.25".

Anyway, you had to read the manual. After typing in some basic commands and inserting the floppy my dad showed me a game where you moved a little R2-D2 looking creature around similar to Bomberman. But all the graphics were text. I think the hero was a capital Q and the walls were ='s and ['s and ]'s.

God knows how much time I spent on that thing, but eventually we moved up to a top of the line Empac Word Processor. It had a three color display. Black and two shades of Puke green. I was hooked at that point.

Moved up to an 8088 and DOS a few years later.

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: CaptainKahuna
In Kindergarden I think, Logowriter (with the triangular turtle)

Yup, it was always LOGO and some horribly cheesy typing program.

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Vegito
First pc trs-80 was for basic programming... then came the pc-xt with a 300 baud modem..

trying to donwnload porn off the local bbs with 10 min restriction !!! u pick the smallest file u can find and download..

upgrade to a 2400 more porn..

thats what i did with my first real pc.. porn

CGA porn...ooh baby.

then i upgraded to ega.. 16 color with enhanced ega 64 ditter mode... hahaah

then the vga came out.. and it was all over.... had to get new keyboard every week

 

[talyn00]

dir
cd windows
win

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
When I was about 4, (back in 1983) dad brought home a weird little thing from work.
It looked sort of like a cheap O'scope but with a keyboard. Small CRT display (it was blue and black), odd floppy drive, it didnt use the standard 5.25".

Anyway, you had to read the manual. After typing in some basic commands and inserting the floppy my dad showed me a game where you moved a little R2-D2 looking creature around similar to Bomberman. But all the graphics were text. I think the hero was a capital Q and the walls were ='s and ['s and ]'s.

God knows how much time I spent on that thing, but eventually we moved up to a top of the line Empac Word Processor. It had a three color display. Black and two shades of Puke green. I was hooked at that point.

Moved up to an 8088 and DOS a few years later.

Sounds like an Osbourne or Kaypro though the Empac wouldn't have been a step up from either.

 

[Mrfrog840]

mmm my first computer was a mac w/ a 10-13 inch B&W screen. Playing some game where you had to collect scarabs, and throw them at mummy's and get through a maze. Forget what it was called. Also played alot of carmen san diego

 

[Perknose]

The very first thing I did on a computer was feed my little Fortran program into the punch card reader.

About the first thing I ever did on a computer I owned was install PFS Write, perhaps the best and tightest unsung dos word processor ever!

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: shortylickens
When I was about 4, (back in 1983) dad brought home a weird little thing from work.
It looked sort of like a cheap O'scope but with a keyboard. Small CRT display (it was blue and black), odd floppy drive, it didnt use the standard 5.25".

Anyway, you had to read the manual. After typing in some basic commands and inserting the floppy my dad showed me a game where you moved a little R2-D2 looking creature around similar to Bomberman. But all the graphics were text. I think the hero was a capital Q and the walls were ='s and ['s and ]'s.

God knows how much time I spent on that thing, but eventually we moved up to a top of the line Empac Word Processor. It had a three color display. Black and two shades of Puke green. I was hooked at that point.

Moved up to an 8088 and DOS a few years later.

Sounds like an Osbourne or Kaypro though the Empac wouldn't have been a step up from either.

The first computer had a 4 inch display and only had black or blue pixels.
The Empac had a 16 incher. It was like an Old Mac. All the components were built in behind the CRT. It could run decent games that didnt use text characters for the graphics.

 

[Ausm]

Downloaded pr0n off some prime BBS's

Ausm

 

[statik213]

wolf3d

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

First computer I ever used was an Apple somethingorother in my third grade classroom in 1980. We played Oregon Trail. My teacher kept saying "It's not a 'game', it's a 'simulation'".

Green monochrome monitor FTW!

 

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: Perknose
The very first thing I did on a computer was feed my little Fortran program into the punch card reader.

About the first thing I ever did on a computer I owned was install PFS Write, perhaps the best and tightest unsung dos word processor ever!

circa 1973 we were not allowed to feed in our Fortrash programs.
we submitted a deck of punched cards to the system dudes who
were authorized to do the feeding
and they returned the deck, along with the printed output, 1-30 hours later.

those were the days.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

The first computer had a 4 inch display and only had black or blue pixels.
The Empac had a 16 incher. It was like an Old Mac. All the components were built in behind the CRT. It could run decent games that didnt use text characters for the graphics.

Osbourne

 

[moshquerade]

played games. now i'm not a gamer at all.