When was your first computing experience.

[Adul]

I remember my first computing experience was on the Apple II back in 2nd grade. Also was my first time experience playing games on a computer has well. Remember the Oregon trail.

 

[TwicK]

Age 4....Commodore 64

 

[Boogak]

Probably be the Commodore 64 for me as well. I remember having to plug in a Pitfall cartridge into the back of the keyboard and booting the system up with it to play it.

 

[Kelvrick]

I think it was a 386 with a Larry game. That, or one a 386 with some lamo racing game where I always crashed.

<== monkey dance

EDIT: Damn, forgot my monkey dance again

 

[ObiDon]

I remember when I was really little, my Dad's best friend brought over what I believe was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 and I was like :Q

That was a LOT of stuff!

I think the first computer I actually used was the Atari 800

 

[Supermercado]

I can't remember if I used a computer before then or not... but I think it was when I was in like second grade, making it about 14 years ago. Some old IBM or something. I can't even remember. All I can remember is playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: Adul
I remember my first computing experience was on the Apple II back in 2nd grade. Also was my first time experience playing games on a computer has well. Remember the organ trail.

gee... organ trail sounds kinda gross for a 2nd grader to be playing...

 

[guyver01]

back in elementary school, we had the PET.

I was awarded the Comptrollers award for computer excellence for my "leet hax0r skillz"

 

[element]

2nd grade. The computer was called Classmate 88. It was a teletype computer meaning it had no screen, just output everything on paper. it was running the BASIC language. No idea what kind of processor that thing ran. No idea on any of its specs really.

 

[eraser]

December 25, 1982. Christmas Day. First time using a computer. The computer was:

Timex Sinclair 1000


Learned a lot using that computer.


Eraser..

 

[SyahM]

Long time ago, 1984, 1986? Wordstar on IBM 286 ... not quite sure about the machine but it's Wordstar ... what happened to the company anyway?

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

I took a BASIC programming course at a local college on a mainframe with a teletype. This was before I learned how to touch-type, so I probably wasted a few pages of ^H every week.

A few years later, we got an IBM PC 8086 with 256KB memory and two floppy drives. Smokin'.

 

[Spamela]

1973. Control Data mainframe. punched cards + Fortran.

 

[FoBoT]

about 1979 , probably the Commodore PET that the math teacher at Jr High School got the school to buy, it had 16Kb of RAM and a audio cassette player to store BASIC programs to. one of the first programs i wrote was to calculate gas mileage
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around that same time, i would stop in at the local Radio Shack and play with their TRS-80 as well

my dad bought us (my brother and I ) an Apple II in 1980 , it had a 5.25" floppy drive and could display color (256 color low resolution and 16 colors high resolution) on a TV as well as do sound, we were uptown then!!

 

[yakko]

It was either one of those crappy little Timex machine or a Texas Instruments of the same quality. You plugged it into your TV and it read tapes from your stereo.

 

[PsychoAndy]

80486. I got it 2 weeks before pentium came out. dos 6.0 and windows 3.1. just typed "win" at the prompt. it went downhill from there.

-PAB

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

first thing I remember was in like 2nd grade doing, I think it was LOGO programming the turtle to move around the screen and drawn stuff. It was cool.

 

[jamautosound]

Does a TV with built in Pong count? If so, then 1977.

If not, then 1978 and the Atari 2600.

Lol. That link brought back memories. I was a Defender champion. My mom has a picture of me in front of the television with my high score. I sent it into some magazine, forget which, and got a t-shirt. I tripled their last high score.

That, my friends, started my addiction to video games. . .

<---goes to play some GTAIII.

 

[Kadarin]

I was in fifth grade, and because I passed the GATE test, got sent every wednesday to this other school where we got to sign up for computer classes and other fun stuff (we got to produce and videotape a tv show)..

They had a lab with Apple II machines that had cassette tape drives. Only one machine had a newfangled 5.25" floppy, and I remember writing a program that would draw some low-res graphics. This was in like 1979/1980...

 

[XMan]

Commodore 16, Christmas '83.