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Topic started by Chipset_Seven on Sept. 30, 2009. Last post by Gunner 2 years, 7 months ago.
Post by Chipset_Seven (205 posts) See mini bio Level 5
I worked on a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Mainframe when I was a junior in high school in 1982.  We had dumb terminals in our computer room class that hooked into the mainframe down the street a ways.  We liked to play the Star Trek text game on them, and would often fight over playing time. 

 
 
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Diamond (8,563 posts) See mini bio Level 25 / 3804 ACH / 70005 P
TI994a but the lowest level stuff I did on it was just basic.  I wrote some basic programs for it when I was 6-10'ish.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by SoothsayerGB (1,175 posts) See mini bio Level 10 / 291 ACH / 2950 P
Tandy, I learned how to count to 5. Thats work, right?
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by HandsomeDead (11,435 posts) See mini bio Level 21 / 1933 ACH / 36890 P
I got my first computer when I was about 7 and it had Windows 3.1 on there. That's as far back as I go.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Droop (1,184 posts) See mini bio Level 26 / 4186 ACH / 66010 P
Amiga something. Can't remember what model it was.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Red12b (8,041 posts) See mini bio Level 19 / 2202 ACH / 37455 P

Commodore 64 
 
SWEEEEET!
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Mourer (87 posts) See mini bio Level 10 / 14 ACH / 225 P
I got a computer with Windows 95 on it when I was in 4th grade.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Reuben (467 posts) See mini bio Level 7 / 1459 ACH / 29448 P
@HandsomeDead said:
" I got my first computer when I was about 7 and it had Windows 3.1 on there. That's as far back as I go. "
Same here, Solitaire for the win!
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by zyn (1,600 posts) See mini bio Level 16 / 1859 ACH / 39797 P
Windows 95.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Chipset_Seven (205 posts) See mini bio Level 5
@SoothsayerGB said:
"Tandy, I learned how to count to 5. Thats work, right? "

10 For X=1 to 5 
20 Print X 
30 Next X 
40 End 
 
Work? - I dunno, is it?
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Meowayne (5,843 posts) See mini bio Level 11 / 1008 ACH / 19137 P
I honestly don't remember. It was sometime around 1993, I had no idea what to do with DOS and it didn't have anything else to play around with and to look at with its green/black monochrome screen. It looked something like this.
 

 
The first PC I actually owned and was able to do stuff with was a 486er with 66mhz maybe one or two years later. It was the golden days of fooling around in Qbasic and being excited over getting a CD-ROM drive.
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Post by skrutop (2,306 posts) See mini bio Level 35 / 1913 ACH / 35572 P
I played games on my buddy's Commodore 64, and we used Apple II E's in grammar school.
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Post by guiseppe (2,340 posts) See mini bio Level 22 / 2910 ACH / 58062 P
Probably Commodore 64.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by gingertastic_10 (3,870 posts) See mini bio Level 23 / 1805 ACH / 34050 P
@Meowayne said:
" I honestly don't remember. It was sometime around 1993, I had no idea what to do with DOS and it didn't have anything else to play around with and to look at with its green/black monochrome screen. It looked something like this.
 

 
The first PC I actually owned and was able to do stuff with was a 486er with 66mhz maybe one or two years later. It was the golden days of fooling around in Qbasic and being excited over getting a CD-ROM drive.
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My history teacher makes our tests with that kind of computer.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by PenguinDust (10,321 posts) See mini bio Level 13
I got started on my junior high school's Apple II's and Apple IIe's back in the 1982, as well.  In high school (mid-80s), I had an Atari 1040 ST. 
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Chaser324 (2,460 posts) See mini bio Level 33 / 3127 ACH / 51830 P
This is sort of off topic, but the OP inspired me to load up my old ASCII Space Invaders clone that I made several years ago.

Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by CitizenKane (9,314 posts) See mini bio Level 35 / 1281 ACH / 24535 P
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I remember fiddling with an old Apple IIe in my AP Computer Science class in high school(We didn't do much in that class other than play Warcraft III due to issues with the school network, but that's an entirely different story).
 
It was definitely cool messing with it.  I should go see about buying one somewhere and just setting up in my room to mess with. The blazing 1MHz CPU and 64kB RAM are just too tempting to pass up.  ^__^ 
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Post by Chipset_Seven (205 posts) See mini bio Level 5
@PenguinDust said:
"I got started on my junior high school's Apple II's and Apple IIe's back in the 1982, as well.  In high school (mid-80s), I had an Atari 1040 ST. 
 
 
 
 
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We actually had 2 Apple II + computers in the school at the time, but the Mainframe was such an ancient and arcane device.  We visited the actual computer (The mainframe that held the processor) on a short walk through town.  It was air conditioned in its room (I think it was called a minicomputer as opposed to a microcomputer).  I don't know how many times more powerful today's desktop micros are, but you make huge leaps in speed and power in even a year in the computer industry. 
 
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Post by xyzygy (8,073 posts) See mini bio Level 16 / 4452 ACH / 95495 P
I had an old PC with only MS-DOS on it. When I was 6 I learned a lot of the commands by myself - how to look through the file directory, how to boot drives, how to look at system info, all that kind of stuff.
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Post by artofwar420 (4,260 posts) See mini bio Level 27 / 1485 ACH / 1415 P

I don't remeber, but the first time I used a computer was in 1995 or so. Computers were starting to behave more like today's, so nothing too shocking to tell. I think it was one with only DOS in it and I was in school, and they were teaching us DOS and stuff... yeah, guess what I did during that class? I played some weird cave men game and a 2d shooter.
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