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The first computer I used was an old 286 with a whopping 8Mhz of processing power and a whole 4MB of ram, with a 20MB hard drive, CGA monitor, and a 9600 BPS modem. I was about 3 at the time, back in '87. A that point, I could read really basic stuff and didn't really do much with the computer other than a few games. My father taught me to use computers at an early age, and I was able to type by the time I was 5, and around that time I started gaming, with good old Mega Man, Qbert, Space Invaders, stuff like that. I first beat Zork when I was 6 or 7, and I've since regressed to the point where I can't get past the stupid snake or the dwarf that throws axes. For school, I used that computer for word processing (good old WordPerfect)
In second grade (around age 8) , I got my first computer, one that my uncle's workplace was throwing out. It was a step up, a portable computer with a 10Mhz processor and EGA graphics. It had a keyboard that attached to the case and covered the monochrome LCD screen. It was the first computer I fixed, changing switches and jumpers until the LCD actually worked, although I usually connected an external monitor. It had Xwrite, Civilization (the first game I hacked, changing the credits and in-game messages by using "edlin" to rewrite lines of text files,) Duke Nukem, and Commander Keen 3 and 5.
I finally let my mom convince me to get rid of the old portable comp three or four years ago, and my biggest regret is that I didn't save backup copies of the original Civ or Commander Keen.
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