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Where were you when you first used a computer?
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Someone else's home
 
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School
 
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Work   0.0%, 0 votes
Other   0.0%, 0 votes
I've never used a computer   0.0%, 0 votes
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Posted on 04-18-10 06:08:20 PM Link | Quote
Where did you first use a computer?

For me, it was at home. My dad had a Commodore VIC-20 long before I was born, and later had a Commodore 64 and Tandy 1000. When I was very young, none of our relatives and very few family friends had computers. The schools only had Apple IIs and Macs and to this day I associate Apple computers with schools.

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Posted on 04-18-10 06:11:08 PM Link | Quote
At my elementary school.

I remember using an Apple II in my old elementary school... and when I switched to another school, I got to use some Performas. I'm not sure when in relation I got my 286, but that... really wasn't all that fun, compared.

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Posted on 04-18-10 06:21:39 PM Link | Quote
Elementary school. A good friend of mine also had one but I don't recall ever using it.

I remember the green screen.

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Posted on 04-18-10 06:24:26 PM Link | Quote
Commodore 64 at home indeed. It's still in this house even, albeit not set up (is in a box). I can remember some of the games that were on it by mental imaging...but not by name. Eh well.

Also to note: I have never messed with (to my knowledge) an Apple or Mac computer, only Windows. :/

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Home, used a 386 SX computer my Dad bought to draw Paint pictures.

Never stopped using one since. It's sort of surreal to think that on this same desk where my current computer sits, that old 386 SX once sat.

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Posted on 04-18-10 07:45:01 PM Link | Quote
Home. Playing Math Blaster and Civilization. On my dad's really old computer, when I was 4 or 5 years old.
I think that I came to love math and science from playing Math Blaster so much as a kid.
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#51
The first one I remember using was a Macintosh Plus (with 1MB RAM, 40MB disk space and MacOS 6) my uncle had, about a year before I got a computer at home (that'd be in 1991, when I was 7) ... but I have some older memory about typing crap in a text-only screen, can't remember what it was though



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Posted on 04-18-10 08:44:50 PM Link | Quote
I first used a computer in elementary school... with the Apple IIs and Macs in kindergarten, I still remember them to this day...

Too bad that by the time I reached middle school, it was Windows 3.1 and 95... but still, I prefer older Macs, but newer non-Macs. =P

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Posted on 04-18-10 11:16:44 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 04-19-10 12:14:18 AM Link | Quote
My father was a programmer for AT&T or something for a long time and I was always inheriting his old Macs every time he upgraded to a newer model. First computer I ever used was a Mac SE with no internal hard disk, but an external 40MB one, and two 800k floppy drives, iirc. Then later that died and it was replaced by a Mac Classic with an 80MB internal disk.

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Posted on 04-19-10 12:25:32 AM Link | Quote

Back when I first used a computer, I was at elementary school in front of a macintosh.

Everyday after school I'd be opening up kidpix and having some fun with the paint tools, I miss those days.

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Posted on 04-19-10 01:32:17 AM Link | Quote

The first computer I remember using ran windows ME,
and it was actually pretty nice for a computer back then.


But ME wasn't.

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Posted on 04-19-10 03:44:50 AM Link | Quote
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First computer I used was at home, an Apple 2 with green monitor and duodisk drive.

I had used some PC compatibles at schools or family's houses when I was that young but I barely remember that far back. I had a computer for a short time when I was maybe 6 but it was only for a few days or something... I barely remember it.

The first PC I ever used for an extended period of time was a 33Mhz 386SX with 4MB RAM and a CDROM drive, when I was 6. It was some "high end" "multimedia" computer from the early 90s... when multimedia meant CD audio and flying 16 color clipart and MIDIs. I figured out how to use windows 3.1 pretty quickly... it was really pretty intuitive for most stuff if I remember correctly. Though some things took about a year to get, heh. Like file manager I didn't completely figure out until I was 7, but only because the hard drive had filled up and someone had to figure out how to delete shit. I also learned DOS on that computer when I was about 8 or 9. I suppose I was a bit late to... a lot of stuff. I didn't really start programming anything until I was maybe 10, and that was just really simple qbasic... and mostly passively until 12 when I started to use qbasic a lot more, as well as Megazeux. Eep, I'm getting tangential and rambling on about shit.

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Posted on 04-19-10 01:22:51 PM Link | Quote
My first use was actually our own at home. My dad bought a new IBM 486 computer and we played CD rom games on it. I only got to play the kiddy ones like the 3D museum and use the encyclopedia (I was 8 or 9 at the time). My brother got to play Duke Nukem 3D with his friends but they wouldn't even let me watch. But it wasn't long after that when I was allowed to play Quake 2 so it all ended up alright.

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Posted on 04-19-10 04:13:24 PM Link | Quote
For me, it was at home. My dad had a Tandy 1000 EX. When I was very young, none of our relatives and very few family friends had computers. The schools only had Windows 95 and to this day I associate Windows 95 computers with schools.

Heh. Copypasta editing rules.


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Posted on 04-19-10 07:23:16 PM Link | Quote
'Twas at home for me. We've had a computer nearly as long as I can remember.

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Posted on 04-24-10 02:40:19 AM Link | Quote
Home. An ancient point and click game called 'Scarab of Ra'.

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Posted on 04-24-10 05:42:26 AM Link | Quote

Home, my father brought home an old Win 3.11 computer which I apparently took to like.. something. Apparently I knew more about the thing than my parents when I was 5, able to swap out to my games from their word processors in the time it took them to get a drink

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Posted on 04-24-10 06:09:15 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by hennahacker
Home. An ancient point and click game called 'Scarab of Ra'.


That game was awesome. Classic black-and-white first-person maze game goodness. I have it in a virtual machine; if I have a few minutes to kill I still play it.

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Posted on 04-24-10 01:48:33 PM Link | Quote




#51
I had that game too (from a floppy that came with a monthly magazine), it's one of the first games I got, and I still have it on emulator

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