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QOTD #72: When did you use your first computer? *poll*

Discussion in 'Tilted Gear' started by genuinemommy, Apr 25, 2016.

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How old were you?

  1. 0-3 years old

    1 vote(s)
    4.2%

  2. 3-5 years old

    5 vote(s)
    20.8%

  3. 5-10 years old

    7 vote(s)
    29.2%

  4. 10-15 years old

    6 vote(s)
    25.0%

  5. 15-20 years old

    4 vote(s)
    16.7%

  6. 21 and up

    1 vote(s)
    4.2%

  7. I don't remember

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
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  1. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    I was awesome at Tecmo Bowl and Super Tecmo Bowl.

    I would definitely beat you at either. Give me Montana's 49ers or Bo Jackson's Raiders and I was unstoppable.
     
    Borla, Apr 27, 2016
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  2. ZombieSquirrel

    ZombieSquirrel Brrrrrrrains

    Location:
    Oregon by way of "Oh-hi-ya"
    Take your video game convo to the new thread: Old School Video Games | The TFP
     
    ZombieSquirrel, Apr 27, 2016
    #22
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  3. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    Thank you for starting a new thread so this one isn't as badly hijacked...
     
    genuinemommy, Apr 27, 2016
    #23
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  4. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    Location:
    Central Republic of Where-In-The-Hell
    I don't really remember the *first* time, to be honest, but I would've been around 4, maybe 5. My elementary school had a small computer lab that we got to visit once a week; and my uncle let me use his custom-built computer all the time (he's the one who introduced me to Sierra games, which were so much fun, and actually taught me how to type.)

    We also had an Atari & IntelliVision before that. I think we got a family computer around...hmmm. Junior high, maybe? I definitely had one by sophomore year of high school, since that was the year I got into the local BBS scene (unfortunately, I kinda hit it as it was taking its last breath, but it was still pretty fun.)
     
    CinnamonGirl, Apr 27, 2016
    #24
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  5. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member


    When I was younger, I often ended up in my dad's office after school, sports, or what have you. My dad had one of the few PCs at his school, so I taught myself how to do some basic command line stuff with DOS and how to run WordPerfect. I could spend hours messing around with Dad's PC--at home we only had the Mac.

    In 6th/7th grade, we had to take a computers class as part of our PE rotation. I HATED it. My teacher expected us to all be on the same level when it came to computers, so it really irritated him that I was actually pretty proficient at basic desktop publishing tasks. I also knew all of the keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, which apparently pissed him off even more.
     
    snowy, Apr 27, 2016
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  6. roblincoln

    roblincoln Vertical

    Location:
    Fort Worth
    This will certainly date me. My friend in jr hi and I used to fiddle with his older brother's Commodore Pet with cassette tape storage. In high school, I got to program with the district's IBM punch-card driven Fortran system, as well as the TRS-80 and Apple IIe they had in the computer lab. Hot stuff at a time when computing mags delivered programs by way of pages and pages of code you had to type in yourself. I'm pretty sure I bought the first copy of Space Invaders sold in West Texas on 5.25" disk.
     
    roblincoln, Apr 30, 2016
    #26
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  7. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Our first home PC came with software named GeoWorks; I don't remember which version. At the time I was surprised to learn that Apple hadn't sued Berkeley Softworks (which became GeoWorks Corp.). It was actually a very user-friendly GUI.
     
    Chris Noyb, May 3, 2016
    #27
  8. roblincoln

    roblincoln Vertical

    Location:
    Fort Worth
    Oh yeah - I remember GeoWorks. That was a surprisingly lean and friendly GUI for the time.
     
    roblincoln, May 3, 2016
    #28
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  9. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX

    It was a very Mac-ish GUI, didn't a lot different than the Apple OS at that time, which is why I'm surprised that Mac didn't sue. And it ran just fine with 4MB of RAM :eek: as long as you didn't overload it.
    --- merged: May 3, 2016 5:38 PM ---
    A lady I worked with bought a home PC, and called one of the company tech guys help she and her daughter set it up. She kept telling him that she didn't see the floppy disk he wanted her to insert; she didn't realize that the "hard" 3.5" disks were also called "floppy" disks.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 10, 2016
    Chris Noyb, May 3, 2016
    #29
  10. ralphie250

    ralphie250 Fully Erect

    Location:
    At work..
    I remember I was about 10, and I just played solitare for a while
     
    ralphie250, May 4, 2016
    #30
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