When did you first encounter a computer?

Contributor: Real or memorex Real or memorex
Neighbor had an Apple IIc and my best friend later got the IIe. I was jealous.
01/25/2013
Contributor: Mrs.Tee Mrs.Tee
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
Middle school
01/25/2013
Contributor: Beautiful-Disaster Beautiful-Disaster
when i was a kid.. dont know what exact age.
01/26/2013
Contributor: jr2012 jr2012
Probably around the early 90's. My dad had a huge IBM set up in the basement that I believe only ran DOS. I used to love typing things and printing them out (on the paper with the little holes on the sides!)
01/26/2013
Contributor: LavenderSkies LavenderSkies
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
Early 90s!
01/26/2013
Contributor: travelnurse travelnurse
The late 80's my dad bought me a Kpro "portable" was the size of a large suitcase and the key board clipped on. Yes, Floppy disks!
01/26/2013
Contributor: spiced spiced
1982, IIRC. My mom used one at her work and one evening I hung out with her while she did some other work. It was an Apple. There were a couple of games on it and I played them while she did her filing (or whatever it was). I remember I figured out how to use it right away and I was SHOCKED to realize I'd spent three hours playing the games when Mom said she was ready to go. Not much has changed in some ways!
01/26/2013
Contributor: Mr. E Mr. E
We are on our 6th PC. It's time for an upgrade...or replacement.
01/26/2013
Contributor: peachmarie peachmarie
Lol my brother and I were so little when Oregon trail came out, we stopped naming our characters after ourselves because we got scared when we died!
01/28/2013
Contributor: purpledesert purpledesert
My family has always had computers around since before I was born. Woo generation Y.
01/29/2013
Contributor: himynameissteph himynameissteph
Sometime in the 90s, I was very young.
01/29/2013
Contributor: bog bog
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
Around 1989.
01/29/2013
Contributor: souviet souviet
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
late 90s.
01/29/2013
Contributor: Gone (LD29) Gone (LD29)
My family's first home computer was a ColecoVision Adam.

colecovision adam

And my first video game console was a Coleco Telstar Alpha.

telstar alpha

You guess the year!
01/29/2013
Contributor: woodsdragon woodsdragon
Early 90s, my parents bought one for the house
01/29/2013
Contributor: Incendiaire Incendiaire
In the mid 90s.
01/29/2013
Contributor: Andrey2052 Andrey2052
Back in the early 90's
01/29/2013
Contributor: padmeamidala padmeamidala
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
I found the internet/computer in 1997. It changed my whole life.
01/29/2013
Contributor: Ansley Ansley
Quote:
Originally posted by jr2012
Probably around the early 90's. My dad had a huge IBM set up in the basement that I believe only ran DOS. I used to love typing things and printing them out (on the paper with the little holes on the sides!)
Dot matrix (the printer). DOS was common on every IBM computer until about the early 90's. Windows had been released in '85, but no one could afford it.
01/29/2013
Contributor: falalena falalena
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
i was born in the late eighties, ive been around computers my entire life. i probably started playing on them when i was two or three. i played some sort of sesame street math game and i remember playing against my little brother a computer game where there were gorillas and you threw bananas at each other.
01/29/2013
Contributor: TheirPet TheirPet
My dad tested a lot of computers so we've always had one in the house.
01/29/2013
Contributor: Sirena Sirena
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
The year was 1986, I was 4 years old. My grandmother was a computer teacher at our local college and I was taught that I put in the big floppy disk and type g-o to make my game come on.
01/29/2013
Contributor: joiedejouets joiedejouets
Early nineties, on an old Mac
01/29/2013
Contributor: Cat E. Cat E.
In fifth grade we were introduced to one. That was 1986.
01/29/2013
Contributor: michael scofield michael scofield
1994 or 95 when i was in kindergarden
01/29/2013
Contributor: lainebug lainebug
Quote:
Originally posted by Bethy Cassatt
I remember being five years old on a Mac program for kids. It was awesome! I've pretty much lived with computers my whole life.
I feel old
01/29/2013
Contributor: Sima-pusya Sima-pusya
Back in the early 90's
01/29/2013
Contributor: Terri69 Terri69
Way back in the 80's
01/30/2013
Contributor: mlmac mlmac
It was about 1984 when I first encountered a computer. It was part of my job and boy was I ever amazed with the technology, but of course it doesn't even scratch the surface with the technology we have today.
01/30/2013
Contributor: Kitt Katt Kitt Katt
The 80s.
01/30/2013