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.
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.
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. :/
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.
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
My Grandparent's house, I believe. My grandma did like, java/database stuff for the state, or something. So she's reasonably tech inclined, so she's always had a computer as long as I can remember.
I still remember trying to copy games from the Mac computers at the school and trying to get them playing on the PC she had...
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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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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.
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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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.
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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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Originally posted by hennahackerHome. 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.