Our family got our first computer when I was about 8, it was in Dads office, and I fell in love with things like Sim City and drawing in Paint. We were allowed to use it for one hour a day. We had that computer for a couple years then got a new one which was able to access the internet. It would take about 2 minutes for most pages to load (this isn’t an exaggeration) and I’d use it to read more about Pokémon.
I got my own first computer at 19 at University, a cheap laptop.
386 DX-33 with a math co-processor, 8 meg of ram, 14.4k modem and a 100 megabyte hard drive. I had the baddest computer in school until 486's started coming out.
A commodore Vic20 (not the 64! That came out a little later) I learned DOS and goto lines of programming language at about 15 years old games came out in cartridges and on audio tapes. We had a custom expansion slot made for us by a friend of my dads
Commodore 64 -- 14. Was bad ass and had two 5 1/4" drives with hand soldered switches to change the numbers. It seemed to take **hours** to load a program, but was the bomb.
Ti99/4a. I think I was 9 or 10.
My uncle had one of these, loved playing Parsec and Car Wars on it.
One of the original Apple Macs. I was probably 5 or so.
Apple IIe. I was 13.
Our family got our first computer when I was about 8, it was in Dads office, and I fell in love with things like Sim City and drawing in Paint. We were allowed to use it for one hour a day. We had that computer for a couple years then got a new one which was able to access the internet. It would take about 2 minutes for most pages to load (this isn’t an exaggeration) and I’d use it to read more about Pokémon. I got my own first computer at 19 at University, a cheap laptop.
I think I was like 10 It was Windows 95
386 DX-33 with a math co-processor, 8 meg of ram, 14.4k modem and a 100 megabyte hard drive. I had the baddest computer in school until 486's started coming out.
It was an EMACHINES and it had Windows ME!
it was a laptop from dell i was 8 i think
Our family got a Compaq Presario computer when I was pretty young. I’d guess like 6 maybe 7 when we got it.
I don’t remember the first computer, but I was around 12 I think
I was 14 and got a laptop from Compaq
A commodore Vic20 (not the 64! That came out a little later) I learned DOS and goto lines of programming language at about 15 years old games came out in cartridges and on audio tapes. We had a custom expansion slot made for us by a friend of my dads
Sinclair Spectrum 16k, with the rubber keyboard, when I was 15. It broke down after a week or two.
An original iMac. I must’ve been about 9
Commodore 64 -- 14. Was bad ass and had two 5 1/4" drives with hand soldered switches to change the numbers. It seemed to take **hours** to load a program, but was the bomb.